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Pre-Requisites

Ensure that CUPS is installed and started.
Ensure that the SAMBA4 client packages are installed (SAMBA 3 will not work). If your distribution does not include a default smb.conf config file (usually in /etc/samba), you will need to follow your distribution's instructions to create a default smb.conf .
Edit the Samba config file (usually /etc/samba/smb.conf) to contain the following two directives in the "[global]" section:
```
          client min protocol = SMB2
          client max protocol = SMB3
```

Ensure the following symlink exists:

/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb → /usr/bin/smbspool

If using the PaperCut installers, ensure that CURL is installed.
If using the PaperCut installers, obtain the installer packages from CNF Computing.

Make sure you have satisifed the above pre-requisites.

Install the PaperCut packages:
1. For RedHat use the "yum install" command to install the package. Eg:
```
sudo yum install net-print-1.2.1-0.x86_64.rpm
```
2. For Debian/Ubuntu/Mint:
  1. Install additinoal pre-requsities:
    1. python3
    2. gnome-terminal
    3. curl
    4. Java8 JRE
    5. 1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
      2. sudo apt-get update
      3. sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
  2. Install the Debian Net-Print package itself.
Items "Net-Print Queue Installer" and "PaperCut Client" are created in the "Internet", "office", and "System" sub menus of your desktop
Run the Net-Print Queue Installer application
1. You may need to manually run this from the commandline as follows (eg permissions problems adding the printer):
```
sudo /opt/netprint/client/install_netprintpc_printer.pl -g
```
2. For the "Department", select "RS-CNF"
3. You will see multiple "Find-Me" print queues listed at the top of the list of printers. The specific CNF printers are listed at the bottom of the list.