Thanks for the info. I was hoping that there was another way besides ssh to do this. I guess I will leave it on my XP machine for now. On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 17:40, John Haxby wrote: > Joe Tobey wrote: > > >Do you know where I can find information on how to do this? > > > > > It's as easy as this: > > client$ ssh scanner-machine > <connected> > scanner=machine$ xsane > > That is, ssh from the machine where you want to do the scanning to the > machine where the scanner is installed and then run "xane" or "gimp" or > whatever. Unless you're unluckly, it'll just work. It's possible > that you'll have permissions problems associated with access to the > scanner device, but that's a different problem. > > Note that you're running xsane or gimp or whatever on the machine where > the scanner is instaleld so you'll either have to copy the files back to > the first machine or use NFS or similar. > > jch > > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list