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Pre-Requisites

  • 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:

    /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.

RedHat/Debian/Ubuntu/Mint - PaperCut installers

  1. Install the PaperCut 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/Ubuntu/Mint:
      1. Install additinoal pre-requsities:
        1. python3
        2. gnome-terminal
        3. curl
        4. Java8 JRE
          1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
          2. sudo apt-get update
          3. sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
      2. Install the Debian Net-Print package itself.
  2. Items "Net-Print Queue Installer" and "PaperCut Client" are created in the "Internet", "office", and "System" sub menus of your desktop
  3. 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.

 

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