Samsung ML-2165W printer help

[Mike Wright]

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.

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,
Mike Wright

[Heinz Diehl]

On 01.06.2014, Mike Wright wrote:
> Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux
> support.

[....]
> Has anybody else had any success with this particular printer model?

Just return the crap to Samsung. Don't waste time.

[Mark LaPierre]

On 06/01/14 12:39, 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.
>
> 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,
> Mike Wright

I have an ML-1740 that works perfectly.  I share it out with SAMBA to my
wife's Win 7 laptop.

Samsung is a bit club handed but they were among the first to support
Linux long before it became fashionable.  In their early driver package
one of the CUP filters was installed with the wrong permissions.  When I
fixed that all was well.  It's probably something simple like that.

[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!

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/01/2014 10:33 AM, Arthur Dent wrote:
> If it doesn't check that
> cups is running (as root: "systemctl status cups.service").

Just wanted to note that systemctl doesn't need root for that.  You only 
need root to make changes, such as enable/disable/start/stop.

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Mike Wright  wrote:
> Note: there is no such named package and their is neither a file named
> "cdroot" nor one named "autorun".

Check this list archives, I remember ranting against this printer and
Samsung´s packaging of its linux drivers.
As far as I remember, drivers were distributed as a giant .tar.gz
binary blob and you must then unpack and run an installer that failed
to do its job properly.

If this isn't the guy to blame, then probably he knows who's
responsible for the Linux driver packaging
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/muthukumar-subramanian/1b/410/a96

FC

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Fernando Cassia  wrote:
> Check this list archives, I remember ranting against this printer and
> Samsung´s packaging of its linux drivers.

The thread subject line was : "Samsung laser drivers for Linux - thinking aloud"

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-February/431096.html
FC

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 01 June 2014, Mike Wright sent:
> 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.

In past times, as soon as you tried to do something that required
privileges, the CUPS webpage would prompt you to enter them, with the
standard gadget that the web browser used for entering username and
passwords.  They were the root username and password.  I don't know if
they've changed it to require your username and password.

But, otherwise, look in /var/log/cups/ for an error log, and read it.

[jarmo]

Sun, 01 Jun 2014 09:39:00 -0700
Mike Wright  kirjoitti:
> Has anybody else had any success with this particular printer model?
>
> Thanks for any help or tips,
> Mike Wright

I have it working... Downloaded driver, installed and Fedora found
printer ok...

Jarmo