12/08/2012 01:09 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Mike Wright writes:
> I followed the previous thread with interest ("Network scanner").
>
> I'm running CUPS on an old laptop with a parallel port printer
> attached. The printer is detected and added and is available network
> wide.
>
> I also have an old Epson USB flatbed scanner. It works and is usable
> with xsane, gimp, etc. on the localhost.
>
> Is it possible to make this available via CUPS?
No, CUPS is for printing only. Sane has its own network service.
Naturally, you should have sane-backends installed on all machines.
Put your subnet into /etc/sane.d/saned.conf on the server with the scanner.
Then, on each client that you want to use your scanner, put your
scanner's server hostname into /etc/sane.d/net.conf.
Most Excellent!
Scanning remotely as we speak.
Thanks Sam