attach usb scanner to cups?

[Mike Wright]

12/08/2012 01:09 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Mike Wright writes:
>
>> I followed the previous thread with interest ("Network scanner").
>>
>> I'm running CUPS on an old laptop with a parallel port printer
>> attached.  The printer is detected and added and is available network
>> wide.
>>
>> I also have an old Epson USB flatbed scanner.  It works and is usable
>> with xsane, gimp, etc. on the localhost.
>>
>> Is it possible to make this available via CUPS?
>
> No, CUPS is for printing only. Sane has its own network service.
>
> Naturally, you should have sane-backends installed on all machines.
>
> Put your subnet into /etc/sane.d/saned.conf on the server with the scanner.
>
> Then, on each client that you want to use your scanner, put your
> scanner's server hostname into /etc/sane.d/net.conf.
>

Most Excellent!

Scanning remotely as we speak.

Thanks Sam