Hi, because it can be very dangerous to generally grant users access to generic SCSI-devices, this step must be performed manually. Unfortunately you only get a hint from sane-find-scanner about the permissions when running it as non-root. Maybe someone can add an additional hint when a SCSI-device was found. This should tell about the manual page of sane-scsi. There is described what you have figured out.
--Peter technomage schrieb: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > ok, > it took me a couple of hours to get an HP scanjet 5t (scsi) working > onmandrake > 9.0. > > the problem, as it turned out, was that the users could not access the device > because "no permission to access the device". for anyone that has this > problem, the solution is to add your user(s) to the cdwriter group as a > supplimentary group (this can be done easily enough in linuxconf). > > this method also seems to work for other scanner brands as well that are > detected by the sane-find-scanner tool as root, but wouldn't let an ordinary > user access the device (as other than root). > > the HP device is actually on a scsi-2 High Density connector attached to an > adaptec 2940U on a system that contains: 1 GB ram, 900 Mhz AMD Athelon CPU, > built in SiS630 Video subsystem, Soundblaster Live audio and am HP 8000 > Cdwriter+. > > I did get the device working for all users (as detailed above). anything that > would make this simpler I'm game for. > > comments? suggestions? > > Technomage. > > - -- > I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or > numbered! > My life is my own - No. 6 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+1XkCn/usgigAaLcRAtC7AJ9ktJhMNnJD8eyNlZd6cZMXVJHnrQCfXK8P > QaL8GIAGP8E25WgsmW4y1Aw= > =C6k4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > sane-de...@www.mostang.com > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > -- Peter Kirchgessner http://www.kirchgessner.net mailto:pe...@kirchgessner.net