Re: SANE default scanner
On Mon 27 Jul 2020 at 12:39:11 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> > Well, in between explaining why all the answers I got do not match the
> >> > question, I RTFS, and it seems indeed it is not possible with SANE.
> >> It's definitely possible with SANE. But apparently not with `hpaio`.
> > libsane-hpaio is a backend that conforms to the SANE standard.
>
> On one end, yes. On the other end it talks the HPAIO "standard".
>
> I was talking about the network protocol. Apparently his scanner is not
> connected to a `saned` daemon (that would talk the SANE protocol) but
> talks an HPAIO-specific protocol instead.
Nicolas George appears to have ruled out using saned on a server. There
isn't a protocol specific to libsane-hpaio, not unless you are thinking
of DNS-SD/mDNS, which are standard protocols.
> Discovery is hence not performed by SANE but by the `libsane-hpaio`
> backend itself.
Ok; I'll go with that.
> IOW he wants/needs to use `libsane-hpaio` on the client rather than on
> the server.
Indeed.
We have now briefly discussed the only two techniques possible to
achieve Nicolas George's objective.
--
Brian.
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