only scan as root

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I found some instructions to get a Canon LiDE 200 scanner working on Lucid.  http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1161276&page=2
> It has sorted of worked. I have everything installed and if I run xsane or simple-scan as root it will run, but as a user it fails to detect a scanner. The solutions I have found online say to add users to saned and scanner groups. I don't have a scanner group. I also found a solution that suggested I also tried to change permissions
> with chmod a+w /dev/bus/usb/002/007 since lsusb shows that is the bus and device for the scanner but no luck there either. Any ideas on how I can get the scanner to work without running it as root?


When you go into System --> Administration --> Users and Groups,
scroll through and make sure everything is checked (except administer
the system if you don't want that user to sudo). You must log out and
back in for these changes to take effect. Plus you probably need to
reboot after changing anything in /lib/udev/rules.d/

If none of that helps, you might try the suggestions in
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingScannerPermissions