Re: [kde] Cannot scan for printers on the network in KDE4

On Tuesday 28 April 2009 09:45:28 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
In KDE 3 the user could scan an IP range for printers. As my D-Link
DIR-320 gives the printer a different address whenever the router
looses power, I simply told KDE 3 to scan 192.168.0.* for printers and
it found my printer. KDE 4 does not seem to have this ability,
furthermore, the only way to get the IP address of the printer out of
the router is through an EXE file that the router provides for
configuring Windows machines: not a solution for me! Is there some
other way that I could scan the network for printers, even from a
shell script, to get the correct IP address?

Thanks in advance.
I network a scanner and printers on a static IP network but have always wonderd
about having to do this with dhcp and here
http://www.linuxprinting.org/~till/printing-tutorial/tut.html it explains how to
do it on the router about halfway down the page. You say sometghing about access
via an exe file but dowsn't you DLink have a web interface for configuration

If you are trying to use skanlite with a network scanner it won't find it no
matter what the IP is because it will only find scanner resident to the box it is
running on.

Can you see the scanner using the 192.168.1.0* address range and xsane? If so than
you can also use okular.

Also try the command scanimage -L to see if the scanner can be found. If so then
you can use the output to identify the IP each time you boot with a script using
stream editors but that may be too complicated compared to just finding a way to
assign a fixed IP to the server.

BTW you can scan with a network printer using skanlite but you have to use the
command skanlite -d [scanner device] with the scanner device being info found by
running scanimage -L like this

rick@rick:~$ scanimage -L device
`net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ' is a Hewlett-
Packard PSC_2350_series all-in-one

skanlite -d net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ

Maybe that will give you some ideas.


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Rick Miles

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