On 28 May 07, at 21:35, Jochen Eisinger wrote: > Hi, > > Wouter van Marle wrote: >> $ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/002 >> crw-rw-r-- 1 root scanner 189, 1 2007-05-28 09:39 /dev/bus/usb/001/002 > is your user in group scanner? > >> I haven't tried changing access rights; what should I change it to? > a+rw for example
That did the trick... so easy if you think of it! Thanks for the help. I really didn't think that could be the problem - particularly as running 'saned -d' from the command line under my normal user account had no problems. It's no matter what weird. Wouter. > >> Printing to the same device works fine - so permissions seem >> basically OK. > printing is done over some other program (such as cupsd) which might > run > with root privileges. > > regards > -- jochen > >
