HP scanning broken under Leopard

[Tony Crockford]

On 29 Jan 2008, at 15:57, Gregg Dinse wrote:

> On 29 Jan 2008, at 10:29 AM, Tony Crockford wrote:
>
>> On 29 Jan 2008, at 15:18, Gregg Dinse wrote:
>>
>>> If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate hearing them.   
>>> The all-in-one is attached via ethernet.  I suppose I could try  
>>> connecting it via USB, if that might make a difference.  Thanks in  
>>> advance for any help that you can offer.
>>
>> how's your firewall set up?  does everything have proper access?
>>
>> <http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00897542&lc=en&cc=uk&dlc=en&os=219&product=1153481&rule=8308&lang=en 
>> >
>>
>> I might  be worth connecting via USB to test and trying  
>> ImageCapture.app (you might need to select the TWAIN device in  
>> ImageCapture's settings.)
>
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.  I had not seen that HP web page.  They  
> mention 2 possible solutions.  I tried the first one, which involves  
> trying to scan from their web interface.  This did not work for me,  
> but I do not recall which version of the software I tried this  
> with.  I'll install the latest and try again.
>
> The second suggestion dealt with firewall settings.  I admit that I  
> do not know much about that stuff, so perhaps my settings are  
> preventing scanning.  They say that certain HP files should be  
> listed as Highly Trusted.  I should be able to add those files to a  
> list.  They also say to open certain ports by following the  
> instructions provided by the manufacturer.  I assume they mean  
> Apple, but I'm not sure which instructions they mean, so I'm not too  
> confident about getting this approach to work.

leopard's firewall UI is a bit strange in places you might ned to get  
something like waterRoof to set up the required open ports and litle  
snitch to set access for certain apps.

>
>
> I'll try the USB connection when I get home.  By the way, is it  
> possible to have both the ethernet and USB cables attached?

The set up instructions I read on t'internet seems to suggest not - in  
fact I think it strongly advises that if you've connected via USB  
*not* to try and connect via Ethernet....


> That is, could I print from both machines via ethernet (which is  
> working now) and then scan from just the USB attached machine?

Sharing devices seems to be relatively easy under Leopard - if it  
works via USB then sharing it over the network shouldn't be too hard  
although the host machine will need to be *on*.  (I'm using the epson  
scanner attached to my Mac Mini, via screen sharing!)

I strongly suspect that your firewall will be the problem.

little snitch:
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

waterRoof:
http://www.hanynet.com/waterroof/


hth