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Configuring the SMB printing environment

Setting flow

The SMB printing function is a function used to print data by directly specifying this machine on the computer. This machine is shared using the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol.

When using the SMB printing function, follow the below procedure to configure the settings.

  1. Configuring network settings of this machine (Here)

  2. Configuring basic settings for SMB Print (Here)

  3. Configuring settings to suit your environment

    • Using the WINS server (Here)

    • Performing name resolution with LLMNR (Here)

Configure basic settings for the SMB printing

Configure settings to use the SMB server.

Select [Network] - [SMB Setting] - [SMB Server Settings] in administrator mode of Web Connection (or in [Utility] - [Administrator] of this machine), and configure the following settings.

Setting

Description

[SMB Server Settings]

When using this machine as the SMB server, set this option to ON (default: OFF).

[SMB Server Common Settings]

Configure common settings to use the machine as an SMB server.

  • [SMB Host Name]: Enter the host name of this machine (using up to 15 characters).

  • [Workgroup]: Enter the name of the workgroup that contains this machine (using up to 15 characters, excluding ", \, ;, :, , ,*, <, >, |, +, =, and ?).

  • [SMB Authentication Protocol]: Select the SMB authentication protocol to be used in the machine (default: [SMB1.0/SMB2.0/SMB3.0]).

  • [SMB security Signature Setting]: Select whether to enable the SMB signature of this machine to suit your environment (default: [Only When Requested]).
    [Disable]: Disables the SMB signature of this machine.
    [Only When Requested]: Enables the SMB signature of this machine (server) only when the SMB signature is requested from the client side. If the SMB signature is not requested from the client side, operations are performed while the SMB signature of this machine (server) remains disabled, and a connection is possible even when the SMB signature in the client side is disabled.
    [Required]: Enables the SMB signature of this machine. To establish a connection, the SMB signature is also required in the client side. If the SMB signature in the client side is disabled, it will not be possible to make a connection.

[SMB Print Setting]

Configure the settings to use the SMB Print function.

  • [SMB Print]: When using the SMB Print function, set this option to ON (default: OFF).

  • [Print Service Name]: Enter a print service name in uppercase letters (up to 12 characters, excluding / and \).