Odd problem with scanner and permissions

[rapattack]

I was able to use my scanner in root using xsane or kooka but now only Kooka scans. I also would love this to work as user but have not got that happening. It used to work in a previous install of Debian 4 but it took some doing and I don't remember how. My scanner is connected via usb.

[oz]

Just guessing, but maybe you need to add yourself to the scanner group in /etc/group.

[rapattack]

I don't know if that has been tried. How do i do it?

[oz]

I'm not even sure that Debian has a scanner group, but you can probably check it and if it does have one, see if your username is in that group by going to System / Kuser in the KDE apps menu.

[rapattack]

This is it. I don't know how to use this area yet. Mmmmm not sure if the snapshot attached or not.
Gee it is not attaching.....I don't know why?

[oz]

If you want, you can see what groups you are currently in by issuing this command from the command line:

id carla

...or you can use:

cat /etc/group

You could also simply navigate to the /etc directory using your file manager, then click on the file to open it with your text editor and see what groups you are in.

[rapattack]

uid=1000(carla) gid=1000(carla) groups=1000(carla),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy ),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),106(netdev),109( powerdev)

Odd I did the 2nd command and when i pasted the results then pressed submit I got: The following errors occurred when this message was submitted:

1. You have included 52 images in your message. You are limited to using 4 images so please go back and correct the problem and then continue again.

Images include use of smilies, the vB code [img] tag and HTML <img> tags. The use of these is all subject to them being enabled by the administrator.

[oz]

Odd I did the 2nd command and when i pasted the results then pressed submit I got: The following errors occurred when this message was submitted:

1. You have included 52 images in your message. You are limited to using 4 images so please go back and correct the problem and then continue again.

Images include use of smilies, the vB code [img] tag and HTML <img> tags. The use of these is all subject to them being enabled by the administrator.

When you get that message, you can disable smilies in your post by going toward the bottom of the page before submitting the post and checking the box to disable smilies.

[rapattack]

cat /etc/group
root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
adm:x:4:
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:
lp:x:7:
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:
man:x:12:
proxy:x:13:
kmem:x:15:
dialout:x:20:carla
fax:x:21:
voice:x:22:
cdrom:x:24:carla
floppy:x:25:carla
tape:x:26:
sudo:x:27:
audio:x:29:carla
dip:x:30:
www-data:x:33:
backup:x:34:
operator:x:37:
list:x:38:
irc:x:39:
src:x:40:
gnats:x:41:
shadow:x:42:
utmp:x:43:
video:x:44:carla
sasl:x:45:
plugdev:x:46:carla
staff:x:50:
games:x:60:
users:x:100:
nogroup:x:65534:
crontab:x:101:
Debian-exim:x:102:
ssh:x:103:
messagebus:x:104:
avahi:x:105:
netdev:x:106:carla
dirmngr:x:107:
haldaemon:x:108:
powerdev:x:109:carla
scanner:x:110:
carla:x:1000:
ssl-cert:x:111:
lpadmin:x:112:


Thanks that worked....so what do you think?

[oz]

Looks like you are not in the scanner group (down toward the bottom of the list):

scanner:x:110:

should look like this:

scanner:x:110:carla

You can su to root and use your favorite text editor to add your user name to the scanner group.

However, I don't know that will be all that is needed to fix this issue. Hopefully, that will do it.