[GTALUG] Help to setup for scanning

[o1bigtenor]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:07 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com>
wrote:

> | From: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com>
>
> | I have installed the proprietary drivers. Have installed XSane backend
> and
> | frontend.
>
> SANE is the collection of scanner drivers
>
> Xsane is a GUI program (crude but powerful) that is from the same
> project.  simplescan is a lot simpler.
>
> Any scanning software needs to find the scanner.  googling will show
> you the drill (which I don't remember).
>
> | Can't decipher how to setup their web based setup tool.
>
> I didn't use a GUI for setting up my Brother printer/scanner.  There
> was a gui involved in telling the scanning software where the driver
> is.
>
> What I think that I did:
>
> - installed brscan4 binary
>
> - brsaneconfig4 -a name=BrotherScanner model=DCP-7065dn ip=192.168.2.12
>   (a different IP)
>
> - brsaneconfig4 -q
>   First device is numbered 0.
>
> Remember to put a hole in your firewall. UDP 54925, I think.
>

Got all the tasks but the last one. I thought that the firewall is on the
outside of my network
and my url (slightly different that the one listed) is on my network.

Could this be the entire issue?

Dee
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