> > thanks, it worked. how do you set it to take a range of hosts or any host?
> > As far as I know that is not supported and I think it also is no good idea.
> > Add each hostname.
> I strongly disagree. I wish wildcards were available: *.astro.umd.edu
Hmm - is it really useful to have more than a few boxes that are in close
physical proximity to the scanner (or is it a camera ? ... hmm for cameras
it might make sense) there ?
> or at least netgroups. Without them it is so much trouble to list all of
> the hosts for a lesser used function like network scanning
Note, that you are giving access to a function that might compromise system
stabilty. I do know, that there are some conditions under which at least
the Mustek driver locks up the machine hard for me. They are very hard to
track, as they leave no traces on the disk due to the hard lock, which is
why I didn't fix them yet.
BTW: Adding a netgroup is as simple as:
a=0; while [ $a != 256 ] ; do echo "192.168.42.$a" >>net.conf; a=$[a+1]; done
However IMHO we should rather finally make use of the authentication scheme
that is built into sane and allow to scan using usernames and passwords
instead of IP-based security, which is a bad thing anyway.
CU, ANdy
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