Installing a Samsung SCX-4100 Printer

[g4n4]

Hello,

I've had Fedora Core 4 installed on my PC for several days now. I'm completely new to Fedora/Linux. I'm trying to install my Samsung printer and was wondering if there was somebody out there who could give me step-by-step directions as to how to do it.

Thanks,

Gene :confused:

[picoti62]

ive got the same pb using fedora core 5.my scx64100 doesn't work.
i found a tuto below:
"I was going to write full instructions on how to get a Samsung SCX-4100 printer/scanner running under Linux, but never got around to it. Maybe if I give the raw information instead, someone else will be able to write the HOWTO. It really is a nice, inexpensive device, once you get through driver installation.

I installed Samsung's driver, but kept only the following files:

* /usr/lib/cups/backend/mfp
* /usr/lib/libmfp.so.1.0.1
* /usr/lib/libmfpdetect.so.1.0.1
* /usr/lib/libqt-mt.samsung-mfp.so.3.0.4 (libmfp seems to depend on it)
* /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsung{gdi|pcl|spl}. My printer probably only needs one of the three, but I haven't spent the time to find out.
* /usr/share/cups/model/samsung/scx4100.ppd.gz
* /usr/lib/sane/libsane-samsung_scx4100.so.1.0.1

I ran /sbin/ldconfig to create the proper symlinks, such as /usr/lib/libmfp.so. I typed modprobe usblp to load the standard Linux USB printer driver. I restarted CUPS and configured the printer by browsing to http://localhost:631/. The printer worked well.

To get SANE to talk to the device, I added a line to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf with the text samsung_scx4100. It didn't work until I updated the permissions on /dev/usb/lp0. Once I installed xsane and the excellent xsane GIMP plugin, the scanner worked well also.

I dropped Samsung's GUI and kernel module. The GUI adds nothing to what's already available in CUPS and KDE. If I recall correctly, the GUI was installed in /usr/local/samsung or somesuch; deleting that whole directory caused no problems. The kernel module (named mfpport) was installed somewhere under /lib/modules. I deleted it and ran depmod -a to clear all references to the module.
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i do the configuration but my printer still doesn't work.

help please

[bigfootnmd]

It is possible that it never occured to you to look on the Samsung page. BEHOLD there lies the answer and the hope. This is the first place you should have looked.

http://www.samsung.com/support/index.asp#

Open this page and type your model number in the box. CLICK GO

A new page will launch and you will click on DRIVERS, Scroll down a little and there will be the great white whale of a driver. Click on description and copy and paste the instructions to the text editor.
Download the driver and soon if the Gods of I and O (input and output) are smiling your printer may work.

[krige]

1. Download the drivers provided by Samsung from here:
http://www.samsung.com/support/productsupport/download/FileView.aspx?cttfileid=214860&type=MFP&typecode=300600&subtype=Multi+Function+Product&subtypecode=300601&cmssubtypecode=&model=SCX-4100&filetype=DR&language=

2. Install them following the procedure there explained.

3. Go to System -> Administration -> Security Level and Firewall -> SELinux -> Modify SELinux policy -> Printing ->
x Disable protection for cupsd backend server
x Disable protection for cupsd daemon

4. As root run "service cups restart".

[Gerson008]

I used the Samsung SCX-4100 Laser printer as windows shared network printer from my Windows 2003 server SBS.

My client computer is a HP notebook 6730b installed with Fedora 13

I successfully make connection to the windows shared printer from Fedora 13 by:
1) Installing the linux drivers (PPD and other related files) to my local linux client
Samsung Drivers in Linux (http://rapidshare.com/files/427883978/20050125183331828_DriversPack-1.0.156.tar.gz) Its old and about 2005 but works in F13

2) Install and setup SMB client to allow network sharing with windows
NOTE: Do not overwrite CUPS and SANE, it'll cause TROUBLE!!
Setup printer Links:
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/04/linux-beginner-how-to-print-from-a-shared-windows-printer-from-fedora/

Known issues:
a) The scanner over network won't work because it never did in windows, if you do please update us.
b) I naively installed over SANE, and therefore i may have corrupted some files and causing SELINUX warning, but i then restore to an updated version, I still get a SELINUX warning everytime i tried to print something. I suspect is due to the PPD drivers not fully compatible with Fedora 13 and its security settings.
At the moment i ignore this warning.

[AdamW]

From the research I was doing yesterday (looking at a new Samsung network MFP), it appears Samsung's driver is a horrible, horrible mess - it does make the printer work, but it does all sorts of Really Bad Things like replacing a bunch of system files, with no tracking, for no good reason.

Debian folks luckily have a nicely packaged version of the driver which stops it doing all these evil things:

http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/index.html

we should probably adapt that work for Fedora somewhere. Obviously not officially, since it's closed software.