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I have two computerrs in the same LAN, where computer A is running Ubuntu 15.10 and computer B is running Ubuntu 16.04. There is a Brother MFC-8860DN multi function center device connected to the network, too. Both machines recognize the MFC-8860DN as a printer. However, machine B does not recognize the Brother as a scanner device, while machine A does.

I've stumbled upon quite a few threads dealing with similiar issues. However, topics to be found are more or less referring either to outdated Ubuntu versions or to using devices via USB or both.

How to set up the Brother device properly on 16.04? What system output might be helpful?

Best, Bunjip

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I have the same problem upon upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04, it was working fine before.

Brother's tools are correctly detecting the scanner, but not SANE, so you can always scan using brscan-skey, the go to your scanner and press the scan button.

I solved the issue by reinstalling the scanner driver with a newer version:

sudo apt-get remove brscan4
sudo dpkg -i brscan4-0.4.4-1.amd64.deb

then add your scanner 

brsaneconfig4 -a name="Brother scanner" model="MFC-L2720DW" ip="192.168.1.228"
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Note that the scanner driver for brother, event network scanners, needs libusb-0.1 installed.

sudo apt install libusb-0.1
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