# Re: Apologies for such a newbie question

From: Mike O'Connor (mike@pineview.net)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 18:59:16 PDT

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  Hi Brendan

  You need to set the permission on the device which you scanner is using.

  do a scanimage -L as root and the end of the scanner list will have
  something like /dev/hp<whatever>. This device need to be set to chmod a+wrx
  /dev/<deviceName>

  Regards
  Mike

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Brendan Boyle" <support@shadowtech.com.au>
  To: <sane-devel@mostang.com>
  Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:12 AM
  Subject: Apologies for such a newbie question

  > I'm sorry to put such a simple question on the list but I've had no joy
  after
  > reading the excellent FAQ at http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljm/SANE-faq.html or
  the man
  > pages.
  >
  > I have installed sane and can happily access my scanner when logged in as
  root
  > but not when logged in as any other user. scanimage -L works fine as root
  but
  > returns nothing as any other user. Doing a scanimage as a normal user
  returns
  > "no SANE devices found" but works as root. xscanimage returns an error
  message
  > with "no devices available" but also works as root. I'm assuming a
  permissions
  > problem but I can't seem to spot where it may be.
  >
  > My scanner is a HP C5110A and the card is an Adaptec 2940 that also runs a
  > CDBurner successfully. I'm running RedHat 6.2 with a kernel I configured
  > myself. SCSI support is correctly setup in the kernel as far as I know.
  I'm
  > using sane 1.0.3.
  >
  > I can't find any information anywhere else that may help so I have had to
  resort
  > to this list. If anyone can point me in the direction of some help it
  would be
  > greatly appreciated.
  >
  > Thanks in advance
  > Brendan Boyle
  > Shadowtech
  >
  >
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