On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:19 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
I didn't follow the whole thread but just picked up this snippet:
Along these lines I have an HP3300 MFP and I can print from any user and I can scan as root but I cannot scan as a regular user and can find nothing regarding any special group or device perms.
I guess the HP 3300 MFP is connected via USB. Then "lsusb" shows its current USB bus and device number, e.g.: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:a1b2 Hewlett-Packard 3300 MFP ------------------------------------------------------------------ and then the device file via which it is accessed is ------------------------------------------------------------------ /dev/bus/usb/002/003 ------------------------------------------------------------------ and then "ls -l /dev/bus/usb/002/003" shows its permissions e.g.: ------------------------------------------------------------------ crw-r--r-- 1 root root ... /dev/bus/usb/002/003 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Mine are: crw-rw-r-- 1 root lp 189, 3 2007-10-10 20:00 /dev/bus/usb/001/004
and then an appropriate "chmod" should help - but only until the device is re-connected or the system is re-booted because USB device files are created by udev on the fly for each boot and/or device connect.
As I don't see which Suse Linux or openSUSE version is used,
openSUSE 10.3 GM (sorry)
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. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org