sane-net(5)

sane-net -- SANE network backend

Description

sane-net 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.

This backend expects device names of the form:

host:device

where host is the name 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.

net.conf contains a list of host names that should be contacted for scan requests. Empty lines and lines starting with a hash (``#'') are ignored. A sample configuration file is shown below:

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

The above list of host names can be extended at run-time using environment variable SANE_NET_HOSTS. This environment variable is a colon-separated list of hostnames 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:scanner.univ.edu

to request that hosts new.scanner.com and scanner.univ.edu are contacted in addition to the hosts listed above.

For sane-net to function properly, it is also necessary to define the SANE service in /etc/services. At present, the SANE service should be defined using a line of the following form:

sane 6566/tcp # SANE network scanner daemon

NOTE: Port number 6566 has not been officially assigned to the SANE service and may change in the future.

The SANE_CONFIG_DIR environment variable specifies the list of directories that may contain the configuration file. The directories are separated by a colon (``:''). If this variable is not set, the configuration file is searched in two default directories: firstly, the current working directory (``.'') and then in /usr/local/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 /usr/local/etc/sane.d being searched (in this order).

SANE_NET_HOSTS is a colon-separated list of host names to be contacted by this backend.

The SANE_DEBUG_NET variable controls the debug level for sane-net, if the library was compiled with debug support enabled. For example, a value of 128 requests all debug output to be printed. Smaller levels reduce verbosity.

Files

/usr/local/etc/sane.d/net.conf: The backend configuration file (see the description of SANE_CONFIG_DIR).
/usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-net.a: The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-net.so: The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that support dynamic loading).

Notices

Authors are David Mosberger and Andreas Beck.

References

sane-abaton(5), sane-agfafocus(5), sane-apple(5), saned(1), sane-dc25(5), sane-dll(5), sane-dmc(5), sane-epson(5), sane-hp(5), sane-microtek(5), sane-microtek2(5), sane-mustek(5) sane-pint(5), sane-pnm(5), sane-umax(5), scanimage(1), xsane(1), xscanimage(1)