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I own a Samsung M2070W printer/scanner, which worked in 17.04. After installing 17.10, it prints but is not detected my Simple Scan or Xsane.

The latest drivers from the Samsung website are installed.

It is detected by sane-find-scanner but not scanimage-L. Output from the former:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.], product=0x3469 [M2070 Series]) at libusb:003:003

I tried modifying the .bashrc as suggested in Samsung SCX-4200 Scanner not working (printing OK) 14.04, but it didn't work.

I've seen this issue on several forums but no one seems to have a solution.

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  • bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1707352
    – user372194
    Oct 29, 2017 at 16:21
  • Sorry, but I'm not tech-savvy enough to know what to do with that information? Does it mean the bug is now fixed?
    – Lolwhites
    Oct 29, 2017 at 19:57
  • it means that many people do have this problem and it is not fixed. somebody changed something, did not test it very well, and thousands of users cannot scan now.
    – user372194
    Oct 31, 2017 at 9:45

9 Answers 9

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I just got the scanner from Samsung M2070FW running with Ubuntu 18.04. Just follow these steps:

  1. Get UnifiedLinuxDriver-1.00.37.tar.gz from this site and unpack it, open a terminal and do:

    cd /UnifiedLinuxDriver-1.00.37/uld
    sudo ./install.sh
    
  2. After successful installation of the Samsung Driver for the printer and the scanner, you can installer the printer first via Cups. For the scanner however, there should be a new directory with a single file in it:

    /opt/smfp-common/scanner/lib/libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1
    
  3. If you use a 64-bit system (which you probably do), use the terminal again to change to the scanner driver directory. Here you put a symbolic link to the file in /opt:

    cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane
    sudo ln -s /opt/smfp-common/scanner/lib/libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-smfp.so.1
    
  4. But things still didn't work, so I had to install a USB library:

    sudo apt install libusb-0.1-4
    

    After that, I made sure that I was in the same network with my printer (via ping) and did scanimage -L:

    $ scanimage -L
    device `smfp:net;192.168.1.20' is a Samsung M2070 Series on 192.168.1.20 Scanner
    
  5. If pinging your scanner works but the command finds nothing, you can start to debug things:

    cd
    export SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 && scanimage -L &> debug.txt
    grep -n2 "libsane-smf" debug.txt
    

    If everything works correctly, you would get the following output:

    ....
    84-[dll] sane_get_devices
    85-[dll] load: searching backend `smfp' in `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane'
    86:[dll] load: trying to load `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-smfp.so.1'
    87:[dll] load: dlopen()ing `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-smfp.so.1'
    88-[dll] init: initializing backend `smfp'
    89-[dll] init: backend `smfp' is version 1.0.1
    ....
    

    If not, you might find a hint as to what file is missing or not found.

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  • Did everything you described, and I get the same output as you do in step 5. The scanner works, after a fashion - Simple Scan does one page fine, but hangs on the second. However, it's fine if I run it in a terminal.
    – Lolwhites
    Jun 28, 2018 at 9:53
  • This worked for my Samsung Express C460FW. Thank you!
    – Artelius
    Sep 9, 2018 at 2:10
  • Hi. I have Lenovo B50 Laptop with Ubuntu 18.04 and Samsung Xpress M2070W. Your scanner stuff saved my day, Thank you.
    – Jacob
    Sep 18, 2018 at 14:28
  • 18.04 and C480W - fix driver location and sudo apt install libusb-0.1-4 did it for me. Thanks! Jan 20, 2019 at 18:46
  • Thank you so much! Also i can add that only SimpleScan app was able to actually do scanning - launchpad.net/simple-scan . Dunno why the reason of this
    – Xotabu4
    Nov 14, 2019 at 11:25
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See the bug report of this problem and the workaround that I posted in that bug report. Let me sum it up here to help you out:

  1. Link the files libsane-smfp* in the sane folder found at /usr/lib/sane to the sane folder found at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane.

    sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib/sane/libsane-smfp* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane
    
  2. As root, edit the file 59-smfp_samsung.rules (you can find it in /etc/udev/rules.d) to include the following code/scanner number along with other Samsung model numbers which are already there:

    ATTRS{idProduct}=="2070", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
    

Voila. It should work like a charm.

I believe this bug mostly affects network scanners. Except with minor variations in the name/model numbers of other scanners, this workaround should work for other network scanners too. Check the bug-report link for Brother, Epson, and Xerox scanners.

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    I tried this solution but it wont work with my scanner over wifi. Mar 16, 2018 at 9:34
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    Thanks a lot for this solution. This made my Samsung SCX-3205W scanner connected over Wi-Fi work in Ubuntu 18.04. May 4, 2018 at 23:45
  • Following these 2 steps, I got my Samsung Xpress M2070 printer/scanner working on Ubuntu 18.04 again (connected via USB cable, no Wifi).
    – Dzhuneyt
    Mar 31, 2019 at 14:13
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For network Samsung scanners, put your scanner's IP address and optionally port anywhere in the file /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf:

tcp host_address [port] 

It worked with my C460, probably would work also with other scanners, check the respective sane config file and settings here:

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  • Mine is connected by USB. How do I find out the relevant information?
    – Lolwhites
    Mar 18, 2018 at 18:47
  • Here is a good starting point for the usb configurationt: systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/5-sane-usb
    – iipavlov
    Mar 20, 2018 at 1:35
  • that worked for me (without installing the Samsung driver), except that the printer/scanner is now waking up every time I start the system or plug in a USB device
    – Damien
    May 11, 2018 at 21:42
  • Excellent, this worked for me with a Samsung SCX-3405FW wifi printer and scanner. and I'm on a new install of Ubuntu 18.04
    – Julio
    Aug 3, 2018 at 10:24
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    This worked for me for a M2070FW after a fresh Ubuntu 19.04 install. Note that the port for the scanner is 9400. If found that information here: bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=247495
    – Bim
    Aug 28, 2019 at 7:52
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For a Samsung Scanner/Printer M2885FW, which is connected over WiFi, and Ubuntu 18.04 a combination of two suggestions in this thread solved the problem with scanning: Rajasekharan N.'s answer and Jevgenij Evll's answer.

  1. I rebuilt the links found at /usr/lib/sane in the folder /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane by using following lines:

    sudo ln -s /opt/smfp-common/scanner/lib/libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1
    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-smfp.so.1
    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-smfp.so.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-smfp.so
    
  2. After this step I un- and reinstalled the Samsung drivers.

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  • Hi Marion! In your answer, can you include link(s) to the questions/answers that helped you?
    – Hee Jin
    May 7, 2018 at 16:04
  • The scanner is now detected by both Xsane and Simple Scan. However when I try to actually scan, Xsane returns the message "Failed tro start scanner: Error during device I/O" while Simple Scan says "Failed to start scan". Running in a terminal provides no information.
    – Lolwhites
    May 8, 2018 at 19:15
  • @Lolwhites. Have you tried to run xsane as a root to check if your problem could be a permission issue?
    – Marion Sr
    May 15, 2018 at 11:42
  • I found that plugging the scanner directly into a USB port instead of via a hub solved many of the issues, but I can still can't scan multiple pages.
    – Lolwhites
    May 16, 2018 at 14:55
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In Ubuntu 18.04 LTS I had to replace libusb-0.1.so.4 with libusb-dev The command for this task is:

sudo apt-get install libusb-dev
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  • I replaced libusb-0.1.so.4 with libusb-dev and now scanner works (sudo apt-get install libusb-dev). SAMSUNG m2070FW on Kubuntu 18.10 Feb 19, 2019 at 8:43
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    worked for me, Ubuntu 18.04, Samsung M2070W Feb 25, 2019 at 16:31
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I have a Samsung M2070 printer/scanner, had the same problem as you, and I fixed the problem by uninstalling Ubuntu 18.04 and reinstalling Ubuntu 16.04.

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I followed the instructions in https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/ and it solved my problem.

I installed keyring package http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/pool/debian/extra/su/suldr-keyring_2_all.deb using

dpkg -i suldr-keyring_2_all.deb

and after adding the following apt source,

sudo bash -c 'echo "deb https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/ debian extra" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

I installed suld-driver2-1.00.39 package:

sudo apt install suld-driver2-1.00.39

From then on, scanimage -L and "simple scan" worked fine.

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For my SAMSUNG M2070 running uninstall-scanner.sh and then install-scanner.sh again (with restarting afterwards) fixed the issue. I also installed libsane and sane-utils from the proposed updates repo prior to the above, but not sure if this step is needed.

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    Uninstalling and reinstalling the driver didn't fix teh issue. I tries to get the latest version of sane via the ppa rolfbensch/sane-git androlfbensch/sane-release but the upgrade is held back.
    – Lolwhites
    Nov 12, 2017 at 19:51
  • Use the official aartful-proposed repo for getting the newer sane version (you can enable this repo in settings). Nov 13, 2017 at 9:31
  • I removed the ppa and enabled the repo but the upgrade was still held back. I ran apt install libsane-common libsane-dev sane-utils and it worked, but now running Simple Scan causes a segfault and other programs like Xsane won't install because of dependency issues.
    – Lolwhites
    Nov 16, 2017 at 16:08
  • You don't need to install lisane-dev, but you need to install libsane1 from the experimental repo. Nov 17, 2017 at 8:43
  • Actually, the latest libsane version has been released to updates 2 days ago, so you might get it from your regular repo. Nov 17, 2017 at 8:46
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I tried Rajasekharan N.'s solution with Ubuntu 18.04 for Samsung 2070w and the newest uld driver downloaded from hp - scanner didn't work even connected via USB cable.

So

  1. I removed the uld driver using the uninstall.sh provided with the uld driver
  2. I reinstalled using the older Samsung uld driver (sadly I have no link for it) and it works again

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