Hi, On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:06 AM C. Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok so this is to memorialize what I found with not being able to use my > scanner over the LAN. Big thanks go out to Ralph Little and Olaf > Meeuwissen for helping with this distressing problem. > > - For local scanning you do -not- need to install/activate saned, UNLESS > you will be doing network scanning. Yes, ONLY if you will be doing > network scanning. But in all cases you must install sane-backends and > make sure that the backend in dll.conf for whatever scanner you have is > -not- commented out. And install whatever client application you want > to use. (XSane, gscan2pdf, etc) The client applications access the > backends -directly-, not through saned. > > I should point out that saned gives you networking access to scanning devices that do not have a native network provision. For scanners that natively have a networking capability, then saned is not required. I am glad that you managed to get some success. saned/net backend connectivity seems to cause a lot of unnecessary grief to many people and it is something that could do with better out-of-the-box support from distros. Cheers, Ralph
