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Brother HL-2030 and printing from Windows with Samba

Posted by Leon Bogaert on in Linux

I wanted to make the Brother HL-2030 printer which I connected to my newly Installed Debian server available on the local network via Samba. With the standard /etc/samba/smb.conf the printer was directly visible on the internet. But the printerdriver did not default work. I then tried to install the cubs-samba (or samba-cups) package. But that also didn’t work.

I read on some different fora that I had to install the windows drivers on Linux. On Debian that should be in the directory: /var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86/3/ So I copied my drivers from C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 But that didn’t work at that moment.

I also tried thing with /usr/share/cups/drivers/ and the command cupsaddsmb. But that also didn’t work. I searched some more on google.com and fount this links:

With the help of those howto’s I did the following:

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mkdir /var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86/ ( I removed it)
mkdir /var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86/3
chmod -R 777 /var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86 (I know, it's unsafe but I later changed it back)

I added the following to smb.conf:

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[global]

   browseable = yes
   netbios name = basil
   hosts allow = 145.99.231.64/240 127.0.0.0/8
   #use client driver = yes (Fucked things up)
   #log level = 8

 [print$]
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
#   read only = no
   read only = yes
   guest ok = no
#   guest ok = yes
# Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers.
# Replace 'ntadmin' with the name of the group your admin users are
# members of.
   write list = root, @ntadmin, leon

print$ is the "Printers and Faxes on printerserver" in Windows. The only thing it does is making the drivers on the linux server available;

OK. It’ve succeeded now. I had some troubles, but I worked. This weekend I’ll post how I managed it.

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