[sane-devel] Network scanning through Vmware from Windows guest to Linux host

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:03:52PM +0200, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> ... is it possible?

I never tried but if this combination works like a normal TCP/IP
network I don't see why it shouldn't work.

> On the windows guest, I installed SaneTwain as well as xsane-win32.
> But neither xsane nor scanimage seem to be able to establish a 
> connection to the host ("Error establishing connection to host").
> 
> Networking between guest and host seems to be ok, e. g. I established 
> network printing through CUPS on the two printers attached to the linux 
> host.

>From Windows, run telnet on port 6566 of the Linux system. If it
ansers, press return twice. This just was saned. If you got
"connection refused" check security settings, firewall etc. Also check
syslof for messages from saned.

Bye,
  Henning