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Aspirant

Mar 08, 2009

Duo: Sharing a scanner using Sane

I've just set up my Duo to provide shared access to an Epson Perfection 1650 scanner using Sane. Previously the scanner was connected to my daughter's PC which was off or in use whenever anyone wanted to scan or copy a document. Now any of out PCs (Windows and Linux) can access the scanner via the network.

This is so useful that I'm surprised there are no other references to it on the forum - but I'm new here so perhaps I've been looking in the wrong places?

I'd be happy to provide more details if anyone is interested.

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p4v3u
Aspirant
Jun 30, 2011
I have brother dcp-115c device else. Will it work with sane-backends better than HP devices?

Regards
God_Future
Aspirant
Nov 30, 2011
Hi everyone,
I administrate a friends little office and installed ReadyNAS as central storage device. Due to the fact that there are more than one machine needing a scanner, I installed Sane Backends to ReadyNAS Duo. Worked out for the first time.
But, since I updated Readynas early 2011, SaneFrontends stopped working: "No divice Found". I already tried the hint of smh:

"The recent update to RAIDiator 4.1.5 stopped sane working, because it updated inetd.conf
Repeating steps 3.1 and 3.3 will get it going again."...without success.

The owner of the company is very upset about this issue. I tried all the year to solve, I dont know what to do anymore. Is anyone out there who can help me (e.g. with instructions)?

Thank you,
Future

*Edit* I get an error message while trying to connect with Sane Frontend 0.991:
"Failed to open 'net: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:genesys:libusb:001:004': Error during device I/O."