[lug] network scanner with sane & ubuntu

[Lee Woodworth]

Bear Giles wrote:
> Sean Reifschneider wrote:
>> Lee Woodworth wrote:
>>  
>>> My experience has been that what you want to do isn't likely to work. 
>>> The
>>>     
>>
>> Agreed.  Searching on google for people scanning with SANE using that 
>> print
>> server might help, but chances seem slim.  Even though the DLink knows 
>> that
>> it's a scanner that doesn't mean that it knows how to scan using it.
>>   
> It turns out that I can go to the print server's website (that is, in my 
> home network, not the company's website), select 'scan', set various 
> scanning parameters and get a jpg or pdf scan of the document.

That sounds like you are using IPP. If you can trigger a scan from the
device by using a URL like http://1.2.3.4:631/scan/pdf ...
or something similar, thats IPP which is just HTTP with _some_ conventions
for verb to URL encoding. There might be URLs that will get you configuration
and status information.

> 
> If I'm running on windows.  For an unknown reason it's not working for 
> browsers under linux, and it's not because of the browser since I'm 
> using the same version of firefox in both cases.  Grrr.
Firewall? - probably trying to use port 631. Same config on windows and linux?
e.g. noscript, allowed helper apps, etc.

> 
> In any case, I can probably dig into the javascript and figure out the 
> query for various scan modes.  It won't be as easy as running sane 
> directly, but it would be doable.
Try searching for IPP and the D-Link print server model if there isn't any
info in the manual.

> 
> Bear
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