Print facilities TU Delft

The ICT facilities at TU Delft are currently supporting only Windows and MacOSX. Either printing works fine using Ubuntu systems. You needs network connection e.g. wireless. The process of configuring printing is discussed here.

Instructions

Ubuntu 12.04 and onwards

1. Go to System Settings

2. Click on Printers

3. Click on Add

4. Select Network Printer

5. Select Windows Printer via SAMBA

6. Choose printer according to your location from the following list:
   • SRV659.tudelft.net/FollowMe-IO
   • SRV660.tudelft.net/FollowMe-3ME
   • SRV661.tudelft.net/FollowMe-BK
   • SRV663.tudelft.net/FollowMe-CiTG
   • SRV659.tudelft.net/FollowMe-EWI
   • SRV660.tudelft.net/FollowMe-LR
   • SRV661.tudelft.net/FollowMe-TBM
   • SRV662.tudelft.net/FollowMe-TNW
   • The Fellowship: SRV663.tudelft.net/FollowMe-UD

7. In the field SMB Printer, enter:

   • DASTUD/[url from above]
   • For example: DASTUD/SRV659.tudelft.net/FollowMe-EWI

8. Click on Set authentication details now

   • Provide netid (without @tudelft.nl) and password

9. Download and extract the printer driver (.ppd file) for linux from this website

10. Select Provide PPD file

11. Select the .ppd file you downloaded
12. Select default options
13. Give it a name etc.

14. Click Apply

15. Printing should now work.

Legacy Instructions

The instruction are:

1. Open your browser.
2. Go to localhost:631

3. Click on Adding Printers and Classes

4. Click on Add Printer

   • On the menu that pops up now, log-in with your Ubuntu user account (or root, if you know what your're talking about)

5. Select Windows Printer via SAMBA

6. Choose printer according to your location from the following list:
   • SRV659.tudelft.net/FollowMe-IO
   • SRV660.tudelft.net/FollowMe-3ME
   • SRV661.tudelft.net/FollowMe-BK
   • SRV663.tudelft.net/FollowMe-CiTG
   • SRV659.tudelft.net/FollowMe-EWI
   • SRV660.tudelft.net/FollowMe-LR
   • SRV661.tudelft.net/FollowMe-TBM
   • SRV662.tudelft.net/FollowMe-TNW
   • The Fellowship: SRV663.tudelft.net/FollowMe-UD

7. In the field Connection, enter:

   • smb://[netid]:[netid passowrd]@DASTUD/[url from above]
   • For example: smb://tvdpoop:secret123@DASTUD/SRV659.tudelft.net/FollowMe-EWI

8. Click on Continue

9. Give it a name etc.

10. Download and extract the printer driver (.ppd file) for linux from this website

11. Select the .ppd file and click on Add Printer

12. On the next screen, just click on save.
13. Printing should now work.

Other printing manuals

• In addition, a manual for webprint on Linux is at manual (this manual is not listed on the manuals page, but it works. It is handy if you don't want to use the GUI printer configuration but instead would rather like to do it via the web administration interface to CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System).

• Manual above is based on UsingLinuxInTpm(needs authentication)

• Which is based on the 'official' instructions at UsingSuseEnterpriseLinux11