Re: [tlug] Scanner is driving me nuts

[Raedwolf Summoner <rarooam@example.com>]

This seems to be a fairly common problem. I found these comments
about scanner permissions problems on the net being attributed to a
change occurring in Hardy.

"It turns out the code for noticing you plugged in a scanner and setting
appropriate permissions (like making it group "scanner") has been
removed from udev, the obvious place for it ... and moved into hal.
Except, you guessed it, whatever hal is supposed to be doing isn't
working, so the device's group is never set to "scanner" to make it
 accessible to non-root users. Lots of people are hitting this and
filing bugs (search for scanner permissions), in particular
bug 121082 and bug 217571." (From
http://www.shallowsky.com/blog/linux/scanning-on-hardy.html)

Also, a discussion of the problem here.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/217571

In this latter discussion, someone suggested doing this:
(1) sudo addgroup scanner
(2) sudo adduser <username> scanner

It worked for me.

Thanks for all the help!!!!!!!
--Ralph

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