[gentoo-user] Remote scanning with saned and xinetd

[gentoo-user] Remote scanning with saned and xinetd

[Grant]

I'm trying to follow the instructions here to set up remote scanning
across my network:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_USB_Scanner

The USB scanner is detected locally with 'sane-find-scanner -q' and
'scanimage -L' but not remotely.  I'm sure I have a misconfiguration
somewhere as I didn't really understand the remote access part of the
instructions I was following.

I have this in /etc/group:

scanner:x:411:saned
saned:x:412:saned

xinetd is installed, but at least some of its files were accidentally
created with group 'scanner'.  I don't know if that makes a
difference.

I commented this:

only_from = localhost

in /etc/xinetd.conf.

There is a list of iptables rules to be applied like:

[0:0] -A INPUT -m recent --update --seconds 600 --name SANE

I don't know how to do that, so I skipped it, but I stopped iptables
before testing the remote scanner detection.  I created
/etc/xinet.d/sane-port and started xinetd, but /var/log/daemon.log
doesn't exist.

On the remote system, I installed xsane which pulled in sane-backends
and I added 192.168.0.1 to /etc/sane.d/net.conf but 'scanimage -L'
doesn't detect the scanner.

If anyone can point out any possible errors in this process I would
really appreciate it.

- Grant
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