I have a Brother MFC-260c multifunction printer scanner fax It prints OK but the scanner only operates under root What steps do I take to alter the permissions on the scanner and how do I find out the correct path when I change permissions it is connected through usb
I had the same problem with our MFC215C. In order to get around this problem, I added the following rule to the "/etc/udev/rules.d" directory as rule file "45-libsane.rules", which fixes group (= scanner) and access (= 666): ## Brother MFC 215C SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0193", MODE="666", GROUP="scanner" NB: The SYSFS... line should be on a single line, in case it gets broken up in my post. The specific idVendor and idProduct values you can get from running the "lsusb" command in a terminal. Here's the output for my MFC-215C: ... Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f9:0193 Brother Industries, Ltd MFC-215C ... Cheers. Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174