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title = "scan to samba share with HP Officejet pro 8600"
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date = "2014-03-16T10:28:12+00:00"
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author = "Gibheer"
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Yesterday I bought a printer/scanner combination, a HP Officejet pro 8600. It
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has some nice functions included, but the most important for us was the ability
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to print to a network storage.
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As I did not find any documentation on how it is possible to get the printer to
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speak with a samba share, I will describe it here.
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To get started I assume, that you already have a configured and running samba
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server.
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The first step is to create a new system user and group. This user will used to
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create a login on the samba server for the scanner. The group will hold all users
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which should have access to the scanned documents. The following commands are for
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freebsd, but there should be an equivalent for any other system (like useradd).
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pw groupadd -n scans
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pw useradd -n scans -u 10000 -c "login for scanner" -d /nonexistent -g scans -s /usr/sbin/nologin
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We can already add the user to the samba user managament. Don't forget to set
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a strong password.
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smbpasswd -a scans
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As we have the group for all scan users, we can add every account which should
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have access
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pw groupmod scans -m gibheer,stormwind
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Now we need a directory to store the scans into. We make sure, that none other
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than group members can modify data in that directory.
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zfs create rpool/export/scans
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chown scans:scans /export/scans
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chmod 770 /export/scans
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Now that we have the system stuff done, we need to configure the share in the
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samba config. Add and modify the following part
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[scans]
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comment = scan directory
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path = /export/scans
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writeable = yes
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create mode = 0660
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guest ok = no
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valid users = @scans
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Now restart/reload the samba server and the share should be good to go.
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The only thing left is to configure the scanner to use that share. I did it over
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the webinterface. For that, go to `https://<yourscannerhere>/#hId-NetworkFolderAccounts`.
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The we add a new network folder with the following data:
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* display name: scans
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* network path:
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* user name: scans
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* password: <enter password>
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In the next step, you can secure the network drive with a pin. In the third step
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you can set the default scan settings and now you are done.
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Safe and test the settings and everything should work fine. The first scan will
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be named scan.pdf and all following have an id appended. Too bad there isn't a
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setting to append a timestamp instead. But it is still very nice t o be able to
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scan to a network device.
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