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• Ensure that CUPS is installed and started.
• Ensure that the SAMBA4 client packages are installed (SAMBA 3 will not work). If your distribution does not include a default smb.conf config file (usually in /etc/samba), you will need to follow your distribution's instructions to create a default smb.conf .

• Edit the Samba config file (usually /etc/samba/smb.conf) to contain the following two directives in the "[global]" section:

            client min protocol = SMB2
            client max protocol = SMB3
      

• Ensure the following symlink exists:

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  /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb → /usr/bin/smbspool

  
  

• If using the PaperCut installers, ensure that CURL is installed.
• If using the PaperCut installers, obtain the installer packages from CNF Computing.

Installing

Make sure you have satisifed the above pre-requisites.

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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:  

   
   

   systemctl restart org.cups.cupsd.service

   
   

5. Install yaourt:

   
   

    

   pacman -S yaourt

   
   

6. As a non-root user, install dpkg:

   
   

    

   yaourt dpkg

   You will be prompted to edit the package build. Choose No. Otherwise, install the missing prereqs and let the build take place.

7. As root, install the net-print package, eg:
   

   
   

    

   dpkg -i --ignore-depends=smbclient,python3,default-jre,gnome-terminal,curl ./net-print_1.2-1.deb

   
   

8. Run, as root, the Net-Print installer:

   
   

    

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

   
   

9. For Department, select RS-CNF
10. 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.

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1. Start the Printer configuration tool at System - Administration - Printing
2. Click New
3. Enter the administrative password
4. You do not need to adjust the firewall or attempt to List available devices

5. 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-printrs-cnf-wp1.cnf.cornell.edu/cnf-togging-2cCNF_Duffield_Togging_Color_Laserjet	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

   
   

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

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The CUPS printer GUI is located at the following URL:

        http://localhost:631

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Use the UNIX SMB URIs from the above  "RedHat - Printer configuration GUI" section.
Enable authentication for the print queue
If you cannot enable authentication via the CUPS web gui, edit file /etc/cups/printers.conf to add a line for the NetPrint queue:
AuthInfoRequired username,password
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Download a PPD for the model of printer
Get the SMB URI for the printer from the sections above
As root or sudo'ed, run the following command (substituting in for the brackets)
lpadmin -p <your_name_for_the_print_queue> -E -P </path/to/PPD-file> -o auth-info-required=username,password -v '<SMB URI>'
 
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Post-Installation Optional Steps
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