sane-net

sane-net(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-net(5)

NAME

   sane-net - SANE network backend

DESCRIPTION

   The  sane-net  library  implements  a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to image acquisition devices through a network connection.  This makes it possible to
   control devices attached to a remote host and also provides a means to grant users access to protected resources.

DEVICE NAMES

   This backend expects device names of the form:

          host:device

   Where host is the name (or IP address) of the (remote) host and device is the name of the device on this host that should be addressed.  If the device name does not  contain  a  colon
   (:), then the entire string is treated as the device string for the default host.  The default host is the host listed last in the configuration file (see below).

   An IPv6 address can be specified enclosed in square brackets:

          [::1]:device

CONFIGURATION

   The  net.conf  file  contains both backend options and a list of host names (or IP addresses) that should be contacted for scan requests. Anything that isn't one of the options listed
   below will be treated as an host name.

   connect_timeout = nsecs
          Timeout (in seconds) for the initial connection to the saned(8) server. This will prevent the backend from blocking for several minutes trying to  connect  to  an  unresponsive
          saned(8) host (network outage, host down, ...). The environment variable SANE_NET_TIMEOUT can also be used to specify the timeout at runtime.

   Empty  lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored.  Note that IPv6 addresses in this file do not need to be enclosed in square brackets.  A sample configuration file is
   shown below:

          scan-server.somedomain.firm
          192.168.0.1
          # this is a comment
          localhost
          ::1

   The above list of hosts can be extended at run-time using environment variable SANE_NET_HOSTS.  This environment variable is a colon-separated list of hostnames or IP  addresses  that
   should be contacted in addition to the hosts mentioned in the configuration file.  For example, a user could set the environment variable to the string:

          new.scanner.com:[::1]:192.168.0.2:scanner.univ.edu

   To request that hosts new.scanner.com , [::1] , 192.168.0.2 and scanner.univ.edu are contacted in addition to the hosts listed above.

   For this backend to function properly, it is also necessary to define the sane-port service in /etc/services using a line of the following form:

          sane-port 6566/tcp # SANE network scanner daemon

FILES

   /etc/sane.d/net.conf
          The backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-net.a
          The static library implementing this backend.

   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-net.so
          The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that support dynamic loading).

ENVIRONMENT

   SANE_CONFIG_DIR
          This  environment  variable  specifies  the list of directories that may contain the configuration file.  On *NIX systems, the directories are separated by a colon (`:'), under
          OS/2, they are separated by a semi-colon (`;').  If this variable is not set, the configuration file is searched in two default directories: first, the current  working  direc
          tory  (".")  and then in /etc/sane.d.  If the value of the environment variable ends with the directory separator character, then the default directories are searched after the
          explicitly specified directories.  For example, setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in directories tmp/config, ., and /etc/sane.d being searched (in this or
          der).

   SANE_NET_HOSTS
          A colon-separated list of host names or IP addresses to be contacted by this backend.

   SANE_NET_TIMEOUT
          Number of seconds to wait for a response from the saned(8) server for the initial connection request.

   SANE_DEBUG_NET
          If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this environment variable controls the debug level for this backend.  E.g., a value of 128 requests all debug output  to
          be printed.  Smaller levels reduce verbosity.

BUGS

   If saned(8) has timed out, the net backend may loop with authorization requests.

SEE ALSO

   sane(7), saned(8), sane-dll(5), scanimage(1)

   http://www.penguin-breeder.org/?page=sane-net

AUTHOR

   David Mosberger and Andreas Beck

                                                                                      14 Jul 2008                                                                              sane-net(5)