Matt Broughton <walterwego at macosx.com> writes: > At 8:50 AM +0900 9/8/08, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> >>A network setup could be made to work by setting up `saned` on the >>server machine to accept connections from the client. On the server >>side, `saned` would access the device through a backend that supports >>the RX685. On the client you can then use any SANE frontend via the >>SANE net backend. >> >>I'd try using the device on the server machine directly first with a >>simple SANE frontend like `scanimage` first. Next, try using it via >>localhost and `saned`. If that all works, try it from the client. > > [snip] > > From your description, it sounds like things will not work with stand > alone print servers or routers which include print servers. Is that > correct?
Yes, unless the printer server in question can be coerced into supporting saned. From the other followup in this thread that looks unlikely. I guess that when you buy a _printer_ server that's all you can realistically expect to get. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS Corporation FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962