What is the best way to share a scanner on the network?

i have make a feature request https://github.com/OpenMediaVa…nmediavault-cups/issues/7

For the first one, try

xhost +localhost

at first.
Check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config and make sure, that

X11Forwarding yes

is activated.

HTH

Hello,

you can try to install Debian LXDE an than OpenMediaVault.
XSane will work with Debian LXDE without problems.

Howto install OpenMediaVault on Debian 7.x (Wheezy)

Or look here:

http://phpbb.openmediavault.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=415

Schöne Grüße

openmedianer

Zitat von Cubytus

Hi there,

I have this USB scanner that won't work on x86 Macs, so I looked for the best way to have it shared through OMV.
I read those pages:
How to get a scanner to work with OMV (Network Scanner)
And https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unc…/2014/09/09/network-sane/
and https://wiki.debian.org/fr/SaneOverNetwork
and http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpsane/

But I am still confused as to the best way to share such a scanner over the network. It probably won't move far from my desk, but instead of plugging into the computer, will stay connected to the Raspberry Pi running OMV.

I already tried:

1. manually installing SANE on OMV from the command line and launching it directly on the Pi, assuming the display would be exported on the local machine, but got this error, although SSH connection was made with -X:

Code

xsane


(xsane:7382): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: 
root@pi-printer:/etc#

2. Then I gave a try to phpSANE, first by installing another NGINX instance open on port 630 (so as to avoid conflict with OMV's own instance), but got another error message when trying to access its web page:

3. Finally, I set up the SANE server as written in the first topic linked, then launched the xsane installed on the local computer, assuming it would look for network-shared printers, but found none.

So, what is the best, most efficient way to share it through OMV, given it's running on a limited power machine? And why did it fail on previous attempts?

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Hello Cubytus,

did you have solved your problem?

Greetz
openmedianer

Hi,

I did set up the the following at home a while ago and I might be able to help or at least give you a pointer into the right direction. I also had trouble setting this up but was able to have something working at the end. While ago I even planned to create a openmediavault-saned plugin but didn't really start it due to the trouble I had setting up my single scanner

Anyway, I have a HP LaserJet 3030 multifunction printer/scanner and use the openmediavault-cups plugin for printing. For scanning I, installed the packages mentioned in https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork.
I added my network range at home to /etc/sane.d/saned.conf so any client in the network can access the daemon. I added a firewall rule for the sane-port in the firewall settings (just to be complete. I'm using the firewall on my OMV system).

On the OMV system I can detect the scanner via 'scanimage -L' and it find it as both, local and network scanner! sane-find-scanner (also mentioned on the Debian wiki) does detect NOTHING!.
As long as scanimage -L does not detect the scanner you don't need to try to find it on a client!
On my Linux client I do add the IP address of my OMV system in /etc/sane.d/net.conf. Then I start xsane ON THE CLIENT (I would never install any X environment, libraries, ... on my OMV system!). Due to the entry in net.conf xsane should be able to detect the 'shared scanner'.

Unfortunately I created this setup a while ago so I might not remember all the tweaks necessary but, as said, maybe it's a pointer into the right direction. Let me know if this also works for you or what exactly is the problem you are facing. Maybe I can help...

Regards