On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:52 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > > > for several ways how to do it manually - perhaps you like it more > > to add the users who should be allowed to scan to the "lp" group. > > This would seem to be a much simpler method especially for new comers. > > > > > > > > The simplest solution is to use the saned and the net meta-backend > > > > on your local host to access the scanner, for example via > > > > "YaST scanner setup" -> "Other" -> "Scanning via Network". > > > > > > This did the trick, thank you very much. > > > > But the little drawback is that now scanning-frontends for root > > will "see" the scanner twice. Once directly as "hpaio:..." and > > a duplicate via the net meta-backend as "net:localhost:hpaio:..." > > (compare the "scanimage -L" output as root and as normal user). > > True, but I very rarely login as root. Most of root's work is done > through su/sudo. And the side effect is I should be able to scan using > my laptop without having to be physically connected to the scanner. :-) >
Verified, I am able to scan using my laptop with the scanner physically attached to my desktop. And it was extremely easy to do using YaST. I will say here that overall I am very impressed with 10.3. Sure I have had a couple of problems, but they have been overcome with the help of people on the list. Hooray to the openSUSE developers. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
