On Monday 15 February 2010 00:34:42 CJoeB wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and > copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the > unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I > am having trouble with the scanner. I again have installed unstable > versions (i.e. ~x86) versions of sane-backends and xsane). If I run > xsane as root, the scanner is recognized. However, if I run xsane as a > normal user, the device is not recognized. I can't seem to figure out > what to change to rectify this - I've tried changing the owner and group > on the xsane executable, but this didn't work. The permissions for the > xsane executable seem fine. I have added myself to the "scanner" group, > but this doesn't seem to have any affect. Also, despite the fact that > the device can be set up wirelessly, I have not done this - I have the > unit connected to my computer via USB cable. > > Any of you gurus have any ideas?
Hi Colleen, I also have one of those All-In-One printers. To get it to work, I added the "saned" user to the following groups: - lp - usb - scanner I'm not sure, but I think "usb" is sufficient for the scanner, but with these, it works on my system. -- Joost
