Scan from network MFU

EndErr · 2017-05-24 05:37

I have a multifunctional printer/scanner/copier Canon i-Sensys MF4370dn.
I have connected it as printer but can not use its scanner, xsane does not find network scanners.
Having a search on ubuntu network scanning I've found that it can be done via scangear, but have no success on installing it on Q4OS (not finding).
How to use network scanners in Q4OS?

bin · 2017-05-24 06:35

Before heading off into unknown territory I'll ask this just to be on the safe side - does it work as a scanner when connected via USB?

EndErr · 2017-05-24 07:00

Don't know, it is hard to connect it because of long distance (~20m) and there is no way to place pc and mfu closer.
It works fine on windows.

q4osteam · 2017-05-24 07:26

@EndErr
Please try to follow Q4OS documentation https://www.q4os.org/dqa007.html#printer.3 first. If you want to configure a network scanning, see Sane over network https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork and report back

EndErr · 2017-05-24 08:40

q4osteam wrote:

Please try to follow Q4OS documentation https://www.q4os.org/dqa007.html#printer.3 first.

Did that the first thing.

If you want to configure a network scanning, see Sane over network https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork and report back

Will report after.

EndErr · 2017-05-24 17:16

Sad to say, but it is not working
sane-find-scanner => no results
Forgot to tell that it is a network mfu connected with lan cable to the network.
Any solutions or ideeas?

Dai_trying · 2017-05-24 17:50

I had a couple of issues last time I set-up my all in one for scanning, and tbh I can't remember exactly what I did to get it working...
I know I installed ocrfeeder and that was the first thing to actually recognise I had a network scanner, but I have a feeling I that when I removed ocrfeeder from the system I had to install another package for the scanner to work correctly with Xsane, sorry I can't help more, but you could try installing ocrfeeder and see if that picks up the scanner and if so I will dig through my logs to see what I installed after I removed it...

bin · 2017-05-25 06:06

Canon Linux driver for this machine - any good?

https://www.canon.co.uk/support/consume … 864-bit%29

q4osteam · 2017-05-25 06:48

The possible way to install Canon network scanner is as follows:
- download 'scangear' from here http://support-th.canon-asia.com/conten … 90502.html

- unpack downloaded archive in terminal:
$ tar xvf scangearmp2-3.20-1-deb.tar.gz

- installation:
- for 64bit machine:
$ sudo dpkg -i scangearmp2-3.20-1-deb/packages/scangearmp2_3.20-1_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get install -f
- or, for 32bit machine:
$ sudo dpkg -i scangearmp2-3.20-1-deb/packages/scangearmp2_3.20-1_i386.deb
$ sudo apt-get install -f

- run 'scangear2' application:
$ scangearmp2

Please report back the result.

EndErr · 2017-05-25 08:07

bin wrote:

Canon Linux driver for this machine - any good?
https://www.canon.co.uk/support/consume … 864-bit%29

I have the drivers and install was fine, now the scanner is problem

EndErr · 2017-05-25 08:16

q4osteam wrote:

The possible way to install Canon network scanner is as follows:
- download 'scangear' from here http://support-th.canon-asia.com/conten … 90502.html

The link from the page doesn't work!

q4osteam · 2017-05-25 08:33

EndErr wrote:

The link from the page doesn't work!

It does work here (Chromium browser / Q4OS Orion), could someone else to check it, please ?

EDIT: the page should be also found by Google search 'scangear debian'

Last edited by q4osteam (2017-05-27 08:01)

Dai_trying · 2017-05-25 09:13

Link works fine here and gives a big red download button.

EndErr · 2017-05-25 09:21

Dai_trying wrote:

Link works fine here and gives a big red download button.

did you try click on button and download the archive?

Dai_trying · 2017-05-25 09:25

I didn't but I have just done it and downloaded the scangearmp2-3.20-1deb.tar.gz file, I will attach it here in case you are having problems connecting to the canon site.

Attachments:

scangearmp2-3.20-1-deb.tar.gz, Size: 236.15 KiB, Downloads: 901

EndErr · 2017-05-25 09:56

Dai_trying wrote:

I didn't but I have just done it and downloaded the scangearmp2-3.20-1deb.tar.gz file, I will attach it here in case you are having problems connecting to the canon site.

Thanks, I will report instalation results later.

EndErr · 2017-05-26 09:10

The installation was successful, but still can not find my scanner and thus can not scan
Pinging scanner works, so printing too.
Any other suggestions?

Dai_trying · 2017-05-26 10:00

I know this is not really an answer but did you try ocrfeeder (it's in the reositories) to see if that would find the scanner? It can be just as easily removed if it fails to find it.

EndErr · 2017-05-26 13:10

still no luck to make it work

bin · 2017-05-27 06:42

Have you tried this solution - I know it's oldish ubuntu but the concept should be good.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/200915/ … rk-scanner

It may help if you can assign a fixed ip address to the scanner.

Last edited by bin (2017-05-27 06:44)

EndErr · 2017-05-30 12:04

I have no luck on setup scanning from a network mfu Canon4370dn.
Actually sane backend says that it is not supported, so I started another way.
I connected with success that MFU to a near computer and try to network scan with sane.
I have tried some solutions to configure the server and client but ... again no luck.
So before digging the problem in config I just made a try with "telnet 192.168.1.10 6566" (this is the host with mfu connected at) but the result is "Connection refused".
So I think the problem is opening the port for scanning on the host with scanner.
Where can this be done in Q4OS?

q4osteam · 2017-05-30 22:19

The host has to be listening on the specified port for a process, for example telnet, to be able to connect to. You can check it on the host:
$ sudo netstat -tnlp | grep :6566
If nothing is listening then the above will produce no output. If you see some output then confirm that it's what you expect.

If you need to open a network port blocked by firewall on the host, you should to use 'iptables', see https://wiki.debian.org/iptables, or some of its frontends for ex. 'ufw' https://packages.debian.org/ufw

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