[opensuse] Kooka|Sane and Network scanner
Hi, At the office we have a Lanier multifunction machine (printer/scanner), cups can handle the printer part, but I haven't found a way to use sane with the network scanner function. I know there's a Windows supported app that can handle this, but I can't find anywhere if it uses a standard protocol or how the connection is made (tcp/ip port). Anyone got this kind of machine working for remote scanning?, I know you can scan-to-email, but i'm looking to use Kooka with it... Regards, Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I have two scanners working in this way. There's some information here too: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Scanner Let's try: At the main machine go to Yast -> Hardware -> Scanner -> Others -> Server Configs and fill "Allowed Clients for Saned" with your network address (e.g. 192.168.0.0/24). At the network hosts go to Yast -> Hardware -> Scanner -> Others -> Client Configs and fill It with the main's computer IP address. Then just open Kooka or Sane and scan. =D Regards On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
At the office we have a Lanier multifunction machine (printer/scanner), cups can handle the printer part, but I haven't found a way to use sane with the network scanner function. I know there's a Windows supported app that can handle this, but I can't find anywhere if it uses a standard protocol or how the connection is made (tcp/ip port).
Anyone got this kind of machine working for remote scanning?, I know you can scan-to-email, but i'm looking to use Kooka with it...
Regards, Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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2008/10/24 aledr <matrixworkstation@gmail.com>:
I have two scanners working in this way.
There's some information here too: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Scanner
Let's try:
At the main machine go to Yast -> Hardware -> Scanner -> Others -> Server Configs and fill "Allowed Clients for Saned" with your network address (e.g. 192.168.0.0/24).
At the network hosts go to Yast -> Hardware -> Scanner -> Others -> Client Configs and fill It with the main's computer IP address.
Then just open Kooka or Sane and scan. =D
Regards
Hi, I'm not looking for saned, I don't want to share a local scanner, I look for connectivity from sane to an already networked scanner (function of the hardware). Regards, Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On Oct 24 12:14 Ciro Iriarte wrote:
At the office we have a Lanier multifunction machine (printer/scanner), cups can handle the printer part, but I haven't found a way to use sane with the network scanner function. I know there's a Windows supported app that can handle this, but I can't find anywhere if it uses a standard protocol or how the connection is made (tcp/ip port).
I don't know about a standard protocol how to access a scanner in the network (except what SANE with the saned does).
Anyone got this kind of machine working for remote scanning?, I know you can scan-to-email, but i'm looking to use Kooka with it...
You need a driver for SANE (a so called SANE backend) which implements whatever the protocol is how to access this particular scanner via its network interface. Have a look at http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html By the way: The HP driver HPLIP supports to access HP all-in-one devices directly via network if the HP all-in-one device has an original HP network card built-in and if the device is listed as supported for access via network at http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html If there is whatever third-party driver, it depends whether or not the third-party driver implements the SANE API so that you can use a SANE scanning frontend (e.g. Kooka). Otherwise you can only use whatever scanning frontend which matches to the particular third-party driver. If there is no driver, you can only scan-to-email. I do not understand why you don't prefer scan-to-email. Normally one can scan directly on a big and fat network printer scanner copier and specify scan resolution and image file format (e.g. tiff, PDF, ...) and all the other scanning options directly at the device and in particular one can specify an e-mail address to which the device will send the scanned image file so that one will receive the scanned image as a mail attachment according to what was specified as image file format. This way of operating is usually much more convenient for the user because when you would use a SANE backend you would have to specify all the scanning parameters on your workstation by using a SANE frontend. But your workstation is normally far away from the network scanner device so that you would have to place a sheet in the network scanner and post a big red note on the network scanner that you are currently using it for scanning so that others know what is going on and don't remove your sheet, then walk back to your workstation to specify the scanning parameters and start the scan and finally you would have to walk again to the network scanner to fetch your sheet and remove your note and walk back to your workstation. Of course this way of operating is much better for the physical health of the company staff ;-) Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
2008/10/28 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.de>:
Hello,
On Oct 24 12:14 Ciro Iriarte wrote:
At the office we have a Lanier multifunction machine (printer/scanner), cups can handle the printer part, but I haven't found a way to use sane with the network scanner function. I know there's a Windows supported app that can handle this, but I can't find anywhere if it uses a standard protocol or how the connection is made (tcp/ip port).
I don't know about a standard protocol how to access a scanner in the network (except what SANE with the saned does).
Anyone got this kind of machine working for remote scanning?, I know you can scan-to-email, but i'm looking to use Kooka with it...
You need a driver for SANE (a so called SANE backend) which implements whatever the protocol is how to access this particular scanner via its network interface. Have a look at http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html
By the way: The HP driver HPLIP supports to access HP all-in-one devices directly via network if the HP all-in-one device has an original HP network card built-in and if the device is listed as supported for access via network at http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html
If there is whatever third-party driver, it depends whether or not the third-party driver implements the SANE API so that you can use a SANE scanning frontend (e.g. Kooka). Otherwise you can only use whatever scanning frontend which matches to the particular third-party driver.
If there is no driver, you can only scan-to-email.
I do not understand why you don't prefer scan-to-email.
Normally one can scan directly on a big and fat network printer scanner copier and specify scan resolution and image file format (e.g. tiff, PDF, ...) and all the other scanning options directly at the device and in particular one can specify an e-mail address to which the device will send the scanned image file so that one will receive the scanned image as a mail attachment according to what was specified as image file format.
This way of operating is usually much more convenient for the user because when you would use a SANE backend you would have to specify all the scanning parameters on your workstation by using a SANE frontend. But your workstation is normally far away from the network scanner device so that you would have to place a sheet in the network scanner and post a big red note on the network scanner that you are currently using it for scanning so that others know what is going on and don't remove your sheet, then walk back to your workstation to specify the scanning parameters and start the scan and finally you would have to walk again to the network scanner to fetch your sheet and remove your note and walk back to your workstation. Of course this way of operating is much better for the physical health of the company staff ;-)
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex --
Well, i'm in fact 5 meters away :p I couldn't find any backend that seems to be related to the scanner... Probably i'm out of luck. The hardware is a Lanier 328c, checking a Windows host that has the scanner configured I see it has this driver installed: "Type 3245 TWAIN Ver.3.83Jc" and searching for "Linux|sane type3245" isn't that helpful either.... Regards, Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On Oct 28 15:32 Ciro Iriarte wrote (shortened):
Well, i'm in fact 5 meters away :p
What a pity! That's really bad luck for your physical health ;-) Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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