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1. Click New
2. Enter the administrative password
3. You do not need to adjust the firewall or attempt to List available devices

4. For the "device URI", you will use these UNIX SMB URIs :

   Printer Name	UNIX SMB URI	Accessible by
   Cad Room	smb://win2.net-print.cornell.edu/cnf-cad-1c	CNF Users & Staff
   Togging	smb://win2.net-print.cornell.edu/cnf-togging-2c	CNF Users & Staff
   Visitor Office	smb://win2.net-print.cornell.edu/cnf-gradoffice	Staff & Users with Visitor Office Access
   Konica	smb://win2.net-print.cornell.edu/cnf-konica-color	CNF Staff Only
   LJ4700	smb://win2.net-print.cornell.edu/cnf-prnt250lj	CNF Users during normal CNF office business hours (CNF Staff anytime)
   Office 262	smb://win2.net-print.cornell.edu/cnf-prnt262	CNF Staff Only

5. If a driver is not found, you will have to download a driver via the printer gui or separately from the manufacturer's website.

• Other Linux distributions may have their own GUIs. You can also use the CUPS gui, if enabled, at

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Using the PaperCut installers:  

• RedHat/Debian

1. On RedHat and Debian, Install the packages:
   1. For RedHat use the "yum install" command to install the package. Eg:

      sudo yum install net-print-1.2.1-0.x86_64.rpm

   2. For Debian:Install pre-requsities:
   3. 1. python3
      2. gnome-terminal
      3. curlJava8 JRE

      4. 1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

         2. sudo apt-get update

         3. sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

         4. sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

   4. Install the Debian Net-Print package.
   5. Items "Net-Print Queue Installer" and "PaperCut Client" are created in the "Internet", "office", and "System" sub menus of your desktop
2. Run the Net-Print Queue Installer application
   1. You may need to manually run this from the commandline as follows (eg permissions problems adding the printer):
      

      sudo /opt/netprint/client/install_netprintpc_printer.pl -g

   2. For the "Department", select "RS-CNF"
   3. You will see multiple "Find-Me" print queues listed at the top of the list of printers. The specific CNF printers are listed at the bottom of the list.

• ArchLinux

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1. Obtain the Debian Net-Print installer from CNF Computing
2. Install java, curl, samba, cups, and python3 .
3. Obtain an smb.conf file per the Arch Wiki

4. Start CUPS via: 
   
   

   Code Block
   language bash
   systemctl restart org.cups.cupsd.service

5. Install yaort:
   
   

Printing via Net-Print/PaperCut

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