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Suse and scanning again
by Peter 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Thanks to Nick for replying! The problem, this morning, turned out to be not rebooting after editing the rsmgr file. What happens is, there is a white list for which scanners are allowed, and all others are forbidden. This is a change from 9.3 to 10.0. I think the idea is to stop malware addressing an imaginary scanner for some nefarious purpose. So, YAST is supposed to set the whitelist to the scanner you have defined, in resmgr, and indeed it does, but if you don't reboot, for some reason xsane does not see it, and you end up with my situation last night, where the files all look fine, but your user account cannot see the whitelist from xsane or iscan, but root can. The Suse materials don't tell you about rebooting, hence all the head scratching. Suse has another thing which is very puzzling and not documented as obviously as maybe it should be. To access a network printer, you need to run lppasswd (probably not the exact command). Then you set up a user and password, which is completely independent of your system users. It is quite odd, the signon passwords do not work, including root's, and when you set up a user to manage the printers, you can set them up with a different password. There must be a dedicated user/password file somewhere, just for printers. They must have some kind of reason for this stuff, but heaven help any users more naive than me! Peter

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Re: [ALUG] Permissions & scanning in Suse 10.0
by Nick Daniels 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 09:54, Peter Onion wrote: > There is a "printer setup wizard" which asks for a password > neither my password or root password works Have you set the cups password with lppasswd ? Peter Thanks Peter I have now, never had to do it in Suse before: lppasswd: user "root" and group "sys" do not exist. lppasswd: Password file not updated! linux:/home/nick # lppasswd -a root Regards - Nick Daniels

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Permissions & scanning in Suse 10.0
by Peter 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Does anyone know how to do this? What happens is, I've gone through the YAST configuration of the scanner, and its there ok. In fact, its there twice, once with the epkowa driver and once with the xsane driver. Start up xsane as an ordinary user and it is not found. Same applies to kooka and to iscan. In a terminal or not, makes no odds. Start up xsane, or the others, as root, from a terminal, disregarding the dire warnings, they all see the scanner and everything works perfectly. They offer a choice between the scanner with the two drivers, as you would expect. Check /etc/resmgr in accordance with Suse instructions, and the relevant line of the form add usb vendor=xxxx,device=yyyy is there as its supposed to be and the numbers are correct. As you would expect, given that it works for root. Do /usr/sbin/lsusb as root, and its there. Do it as an ordinary user, and its not. It invites you to set permissions, without explaining how. So somehow, although YAST is supposed to set all the permissions right, it hasn't, and one has to set them manually. But where is the scanner to set its permissions, and what should they be set to? Or should I be finding the binaries of xsane and kooka and setting them to suid? Several hours now and counting.... Oh well, its how we learn. Regards, Peter

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. Historically, these used to be the only time a lot of us would be about, now the channel has some usual faces that are there most of the time (except at silly o'clock, when we might be sleeping, or on the second thursday of the month, where we might be drinking in the Reindeer), so don't feel limited to visit during this time, come visit us when ever you feel like it! The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include xchat, irssi and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://www.irssi.org/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Ergo Mercury Laptops
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

If anyone has acquaintance with Mercury laptops supplied by Ergo ( http://www.ergo.co.uk/ ) I'd be interested to hear from you! (probably best suited to off-list but OK on-list if you prefer). I'm particularly interested in the Mercury 700A model, and specifically (at the moment, though probaboy other things later) in the builtin ethernet interface device. With thanks, and while I'm at it: H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ! ! ! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 31-Dec-05 Time: 21:27:53 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Re: (no subject) Should be titled dreambox!
by Ricky Bruce 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

doh

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(no subject)
by Ricky Bruce 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

just bought a dreambox 7000s (a linux based satellite system/pvr type thing, im very excited!) off of a bloke i know and would be very grateful if anyone else whos got one might be able to lend a helping hand/hints with regard to the softcam set up. shant bother you all with more specifics cos it wouldnt mean much unless youve got one cheers rick

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screensaver - how?
by Chris Green 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

Having moved from xfce to fvwm2 I now no longer seem to have a screensaver. xscreensaver is installed on my system but the manual pages don't make it clear how to actually run it. What's the 'normal' way of running it? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. Historically, these used to be the only time a lot of us would be about, now the channel has some usual faces that are there most of the time (except at silly o'clock, when we might be sleeping, or on the second thursday of the month, where we might be drinking in the Reindeer), so don't feel limited to visit during this time, come visit us when ever you feel like it! The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include xchat, irssi and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://www.irssi.org/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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(no subject)
by Paul, Jean R 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi I was given the charge of website administrator for an hospital located in the caribean. As most of the visitors will be on the side of the Atlantic, can buy a domain name(.org) in the UK, and can the website be hosted can here in the UK. If the answer is please forward me a good web hosting company. Many thanks

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