adding samsung porinter config - online edit of handbook/computing/netconfig.html

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@@ -135,11 +135,65 @@ has been added to the end of the runfakenet script as this setting does not seem
We have a Samsung C430W printer with broken ethernet and wirless networking, but the USB cable works.
<p>From a clean Devian install on the expo laptop, the missing thing for making the printer work was: apt-get install libcupsimage2
Also you need the Samsung driver installation from the Samsung website.
Also you need the Samsung driver installation from the Samsung website (see below).
<p>To share the printer:<br>
cupsctl --share-printers<br>
lpadmin -p C43x-Series -o printer-is-shared=true<br>
this should be one-time config.
<h4>Samsung Unified Printer Driver</h4>
The archive site is at
<a href="https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/">
The Samsung Unified Linux Driver Repository</a>: "This site provides an apt (.deb) repository for installing the Samsung Unified Linux Driver (as of 2017, sold to HP) in a more user-friendly and less problematic way than downloading and installing directly from the Samsung website or using the installer that ships with printers."
<p>Or you can try to get the driver from
<a href="https://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/">www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/</a> but it may have evaporated since HP took over the support.
<p>Installing the Samsung driver package:
<ol class="procedure" type="1">
<li class="step" title="Step 1">
<p>Make sure that the machine is connected to
your computer and powered on.</p>
</li>
<li class="step" title="Step 2">
<p>Copy the <span class="guimenu eng" title="eng">Unified Linux Driver</span> package
to your system.</p>
</li>
<li class="step" title="Step 3">
<p> Open Terminal program and go to the folder that you
copied the package to.</p>
</li>
<li class="step" title="Step 4">
<p>Extract the package.</p>
</li>
<li class="step" title="Step 5">
<p>Move to <span class="guimenu eng" title="eng">uld</span> folder.</p>
</li>
<li class="step" title="Step 6">
<p>Execute "./<span class="guimenu linux_driver" title="linux_driver">install.sh</span>"
command (If you're not logged in as a root, execute the
command with "<span class="guimenu eng" title="eng">sudo</span>" as "<span class="guimenu eng" title="eng">sudo ./install.sh</span>")</p>
</li>
<li class="step" title="Step 7">
<p> Proceed with the installation.</p>
</li>
<li class="step" title="Step 8">
<p>When the installation is finished, launch printing
utility(Go to <span class="guimenu eng" title="eng">System</span> &gt; <span class="guimenu eng" title="eng">Administration</span> &gt; <span class="guimenu eng" title="eng">Printing</span> or
execute "<span class="guimenu eng" title="eng">system-config-printer</span>" command
in Terminal program).</p>
</li>
<li class="step" title="Step 9">
<p>Click <span class="guimenu linux_driver" title="linux_driver">Add</span> button.</p>
</li>
<li class="step" title="Step 10">
<p>Select your printer.</p>
</li>
<li class="step" title="Step 11">
<p>Click the <span class="guimenu linux_Installer" title="linux_Installer">Forward</span> button
and add it to your system.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<h4 style="color: red">When it all goes wrong</h4>
<p>If everything is working between devices in the hut, but there is no internet access, then the <b>first thing to check</b> is that