Samsung ML-2165W printer help

[Arthur Dent]

On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 09:39 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux 
> support.  Downloaded and installed the driver (it claims installation 
> successful).
> 
> The user manual seems to be flat out wrong.  The Linux install 
> directions seem to be for Windows.
> 
> 
> "--------------------
> When the Administrator Login window appears, type "root" in the Login 
> field and enter the system password.
> 
> You must log in as a super user (root) to install the machine software. 
> If you are not a super user, ask your system administrator.
> 
>  From the Samsung website, download the Unified Linux Driver package to 
> your computer.
> 
> Right-click the Unified Linux Driver package and extract the package.
> 
> Double click cdroot > autorun.
> "--------------------
> 
> Note: there is no such named package and their is neither a file named 
> "cdroot" nor one named "autorun".
> 
> At any rate, when I attempt to print a page the printer's activity light 
> flashes for a long time then stops.  CUPS reports "completed".
> 
> This occurs regardless of whether there is paper loaded or not.
> 
> Cups isn't being very helpful here either.  Almost anything 
> administrator related tells me "Forbidden", but nowhere can I find a way 
> to "Login" to it.

I can't help with the printer specifically, but with cups, you need to
point your browser to port 631 of the address of the machine where your
cups server is running (192.168.2.1:631 in my case). This should bring
up the cups home page for your cups server. If it doesn't check that
cups is running (as root: "systemctl status cups.service").

On that page there should be several tabs along the top, the second of
which is "administration". When you click on that tab it will say
something like "Upgrade required You must access this page using the URL
https://192.168.2.1:631/admin" and will then pop up a log-in box. Use
"root" and your root password. You should then be able to add the
printer from there...

> Part of me says the driver doesn't work and part of me says the printer 
> is DOA.
> 
> Has anybody else had any success with this particular printer model?
> 
> Thanks for any help or tips,

Good luck!