Scanning over network in Fedora 11

Klaus-Peter Schrage kpschrage at gmx.de
Sat Jul 11 17:46:47 UTC 2009


I want to setup network scanning in Fedora, but no success.
I try to describe my setup in a quite detailed manner:

1. My scanner works fine locally:

$ scanimage -L
device `snapscan:libusb:004:003' is a AGFA SNAPSCAN 1212U_2 flatbed scanner

2. I have the  configured like this in /etc/sane.d/saned.conf:

...
192.168.2.0/24
localhost

(my local network is 192.168.2.XXX)

3. In /etc/services ther are the proper ports listed:

sane-port       6566/tcp                # SANE Control Port
sane-port       6566/udp                # SANE Control Port

4. saned is started from xinetd, configured like this:

# /etc/xinetd.d/sane
# Sane network access
service sane-port
{
     disable    = no
     socket_type     = stream
     protocol        = tcp
     wait            = no
     user            = kp
    server          = /usr/sbin/saned
}

(kp is my user)

5. Now I try to check if saned is running properly:

$ telnet localhost 6566
gives this output:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.

6.  But whenever I telnet to saned remotely, even from this very machine 
using it's ip address, I get:

Trying 192.168.2.35...
Connected to 192.168.2.35.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

7. So I ran sane in debug mode (saned -d128, with the daemon stopped), 
and I got the following error messages from step 6:

...
[saned] saned (AF-indep+IPv6) from sane-backends 1.0.19 ready
[saned] check_host: access by remote host: 192.168.2.35
[saned] check_host: remote host is not IN_LOOPBACK nor IN6_LOOPBACK
[saned] check_host: local hostname: kellercomputer.kralenriede.de
[saned] check_host: getaddrinfo failed: No address associated with hostname
[saned] init: access by host 192.168.2.35 denied
[saned] quit: exiting

8. BTW, the firewall is turned off.

Now, what may have gone wrong?

Any help would be greately appreciated,
Klaus















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