![]() ![]() The visual appearance has also been changed very slightly. This offers improved memory usage and more efficient code, so you may notice it running slightly faster than before. The Chromium web browser has been updated to version 60, the most recent stable release. See the Sonic Pi release notes for more details of exactly what has changed. Version 3.0.1 of Sonic Pi is included – this includes a lot of new functionality in terms of input/output. However, we’ve made a few small changes to our image that are worth mentioning. (If you’re really interested, the technical details are in the Debian release notes here.) The differences between Jessie and Stretch are mostly under-the-hood optimisations, and you really shouldn’t notice any differences in day-to-day use of the desktop and applications. In case, like me, you were wondering: Stretch is a purple octopus from Toy Story 3. Scroll down through the config file and set the below attributes, then press CTRL+O to “WriteOut” aka Save the changes.Debian releases are named after characters from Disney Pixar’s Toy Story trilogy. Install Samba: sudo apt-get install sambaĮdit Samba config file with nano text editor to set your Work Group and enable WINS support: sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf To do this, I needed to install Samba which is explained simply enough here – What I needed to do was allow file and print services to be shared from the RPi to Windows. Viewing the Network tab on Windows did not list the RPi on the network. I was able to click the Maintenance drop-down and successfully print a test page.Īfter getting the printer set up on the RPi, the last thing to do was be able to add the new network printer to our Windows laptops. Many people online seemed to have luck selecting similar model printers, so I gave the Brother MFC-9600 – CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.10 driver a shot, and amazingly it worked! I was able to find a Debian printer driver for this model on Brother’s support page, and although it installed on Raspbian, it is built for a different architecture and would not print. You then have to select your make and model of printer to pick the correct driver. NOW I was able to click on Adding Printers and Classes > Add Printer and select my already recognized printer. So as instructed in that link, I had to add the root user (in the case of the Rpi, root username Pi) to the lpadmin group. Though its a different Linux distrobution, I found the Ubuntu CUPS help page helpful Basically the CUPS software creates a user group called lpadmin on the machine, and a user must be a member of it to do anything via the web interface – but it doesn’t automatically add anyone to this group, not even the root user. This was a spot where Linux knowledge would probably have helped. To administer CUPS, you point your web browser (on the RPi) to to get the admin screen shown below.īut clicking on “Adding Printers and Classes”, popped up a username/pw screen, which the instructions said to log into with your root user account, but even that yielded: “Unable to add printer: Forbidden”. CUPS was already installed as part of the pre-loaded software on Raspbian, and I knew it was updated from earlier, so I should have just been able to go to its web interface and configure the printer. For that I turned to CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System), because that’s what the internet told me to use to set up a Linux system as a print server. So next was to get the printer working locally with the RPi. Sure, you have to physically go to a printer to pick up what you printed, but wtf? My thermostat can stay connected 24/7 but a several hundred dollar printer cant? Sorry, I said I wasn’t going to rant about this… Searches online yielded tons of posts with the same issue, and apparently there being no solution other than literally turning it off and turning it back on again. The latest, a Brother MFC-L2740DW multi-function laser, had the nasty habit of going “offline” to save power approximately every 24 hours. We’ve gone through several of various brands and while they “work” part of the time, we’ve never found one that was reliable and consistently stayed connected to our home network. Since my wife and I switched exclusively to laptops, and I decommissioned (read – drive failed and its sat in various states of disassembly for 3 years) my last desktop that acted as a file and print server in our home office, we searched for a “wireless printer” that actually consistently works. But this post isn’t about ranting about how terrible printers are in general – its about getting one to work wirelessly. Since the dawn of the digital age, man has been trapped in a never ending struggle with printers.
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