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Re: How to configure your printer
« Reply #15 on Feb 12, 2011, 10:54pm »

Feb 12, 2011, 8:14pm, wayne1288 wrote:

Well, sound like I have some luck with your help

on terminal, command xsane shows error
Failed to open device 'brother3:bus1;dev1':invalid argument.

just try run command xsane on root, got a warning, but it runs

so the image on scanner comes to the computer, first time success doing it on Linux OS

Now I have not yet learned how to navigate on saving image... got to read menual and try more luck.

thanks for the help

You may need to add your user to group scanner for it to work as a user.

Code:
gksu addgroup 'your-user-name' scanner

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Re: How to configure your printer
« Reply #16 on Feb 13, 2011, 7:16pm »

thanks chevy for the tip.

I tried, added the user.
the result is , xsane still cannot be run from $ prompt, the same error pop up.

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Re: How to configure your printer
« Reply #17 on Feb 13, 2011, 7:29pm »

Actually the correct way to add users to groups is slightly different in newer Debian versions. This is the exact method that should be used as of the release of Squeeze.

Login as root then :
gpasswd -a USER GROUP
replace user with your username and group with the group name.
id yourusername will allow you to verify changes

I have contacted Frag about the default groups in his installer. If he does not accept my patches I will be applying them manually for the 1.2 image builds.

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Re: How to configure your printer
« Reply #18 on Feb 13, 2011, 10:59pm »

Well darn! But I know su -c 'nano /etc/group' will work just fine after you log out and back in. I never was any good at keeping up with all those commands or maybe it's that I spent to much time in LFS.

Edit Some day that stuff will bite me in the tush.

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Re: How to configure your printer
« Reply #19 on Feb 13, 2011, 11:29pm »

Feb 13, 2011, 10:59pm, 62chevy wrote:

Edit Some day that stuff will bite me in the tush.

This actually caught me during the beta builds of SalineOS. Other older ways of adding users to groups don't work properly anymore. Why the change I am not sure, but yes nano will do it ... If you are into that kind of thing

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Re: How to configure your printer
« Reply #20 on Feb 14, 2011, 11:09am »

Feb 13, 2011, 11:29pm, Anthony Nordquist wrote:

Feb 13, 2011, 10:59pm, 62chevy wrote:

Edit Some day that stuff will bite me in the tush.

I would say a command included by default not working is a bug, a minor bug but one that drive you nuts trying to figure out why it won't work.

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Re: How to configure your printer
« Reply #21 on Feb 14, 2011, 2:10pm »

Feb 14, 2011, 11:09am, 62chevy wrote:

Feb 13, 2011, 11:29pm, Anthony Nordquist wrote:

I would say a command included by default not working is a bug, a minor bug but one that drive you nuts trying to figure out why it won't work.

It may just work its been quite some time since the last time I tried it. Far as I can tell gpasswd is the recommended command to use. This will be the one I will use on all my forum posts for consistency sake, even though there are a half a dozen ways to accomplish this.

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Re: How to configure your printer
« Reply #22 on Feb 14, 2011, 4:19pm »

Okay easy enough gksu gpasswd -a USER GROUP it is. Thanks for the update Anthony.

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