xsane Problems

[neil woolford]

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 18:46 -0500, Irene Zimmermann wrote:
> Installed a Samsung 4720f multifuction machine; a few automated
> installation problems with scanner; had to clean up /etc/sane.d and
> dll.d conf files.
> 
> Scanner now works but must run xsane as root to recognize the scanner.
> 
> What must I reconfigure to run sxane as a non-root user with the
> aforementioned scanner recognition.
> 

Obviously I don't know exactly what problems you had during
installation, or what you had to clean up, so I don't know what the
problem is.  Having said that, there is one thing I'd check early on in
the fault-finding process, which is whether your normal non-root users
have scanner use privilege.  Basically they need to be members of the
scanner group to be able to use it.

I'd look in System->Administration->Users and Groups, scanner is
probably group 108 (it is on my Breezy system).  If you select a user
name and check the properties you can see what the common user
privileges (group memberships) are and set or unset them.

Neil

(The membership of more obscure groups can be set from the Groups tab of
Users and Groups.)
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