Introduction

A machine has a scanner attached to it and this resource should be shared in the network. How to configure and install sane

Installation

server and client

The basic package that provides the scan daemon is saned, this needs to be installed on the server and the client

aptitude install sane 

LTSP specfic

If the packages need to be installed on the ltsp client first run the ltsp-chroot command

ltsp-chroot -m
apt-get install sane 

No need to run the ltsp-update-image just yet, as the package needs to be configured

Configuration

server

On the server we need to enable the start of the daemon

RUN=yes

Configure the network to where it should expose the scanner, adapt to actual configuration

192.168.10.0/24

and add the saned user to the group lp, or whatever group write permissions are set

adduser saned lp

restart the saned service

service saned stop
service saned start 

client

Configure the host it should connect to scanners, adapt to actual configuration

192.168.10.1

LTSP specific

Edit the file in the ltsp filesystem

192.168.10.1

and now update the image

ltsp-update-image

Trouble Shooting

no access to device

error message "Access to resource has been denied"

1. check if the scanner is recognized by the system

   # as root
   lsusb
   --snip-- 
   Bus 002 Device 005: ID 03f0:3b17 Hewlett-Packard LaserJet M1005 MFP
   --snip-- 

    in this case, look at the permissions of bus 002 and device 005

   ls -l /dev/bus/usb/002/005 
   crw-rw-r--+ 1 root lp 189, 132 Jan 21 12:00 /dev/bus/usb/002/005

   And see that the process that needs to access the scanner is in the correct group. To change the group, edit the udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/