On Sat 31 Jul 2021 at 14:37:49 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-07-31 13:18, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 31 Jul 2021 at 10:20:43 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > > > On 2021-07-30 18:30, Brian wrote: > > > <...> > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork#escl > > > looking at those informative pages I think /dev/sg2 is the scanner > > > should that not be in group scanner ? > > > > > > root@pumpkin:/# ls -l /dev |grep cdrom > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jul 30 17:36 cdrom -> sr0 > > > crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 2 Jul 30 17:36 sg2 > > > brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jul 30 17:36 sr0 > > > > I don't see why it should be. I too have > > > > crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 2 Jul 30 17:36 sg1 > > > > on bullseye. Note the +. Its an ACL. systemd, and libpam-systemd have > > taken care of the correct permissions on the scanner device file. Try > > > > getfacl /dev/sg2 > > > > (Did you ever say in this thread what the printer/scanner is?) > > I thought it was in there, it's fujitsu fi-5750c
Thanks. The device appears to date from about 2007. I am surprised that SANE's escl backend detects it and that scanning with xsane "escl:fi-5750Cdj:107245" is possible. (Just a comment and nothing to do with your issues). > The scanbd.conf says > user saned > group scanner It is the saned user that has to be in the scanner group, not your user. grep scanner /etc/groups cat /etc/default/saned > I'm wondering if this is why I'm having difficulty saving scans anywhere > other than /tmp > and getting permission denied writing to a file with a script both in > /etc/scanbd/scripts called from scanbd.conf Probably not. > How to find which is the scanner in /dev if it is supposed to be there? > Xsane works fine. I thought it was /dev/sg2. -- Brian.