Ubuntu – Samsung SCX-3201 MFP scanner not working

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I have a Samsung SCX-3201 MFP multifunction printer and after plugging it into the computer it recognises the printer part, but the scanner is not detected.

Since that I've fresh installed and did not try it again. The built-in scan application nor SANE detects it.

I did try Samsung's proprietary software.Neither did it detect it

Best Answer

Not Supported

Having checked the stable version of the SANE libraries that is included in Ubuntu from the sane-project website, the scanner in question is not yet supported.

To double check this you'll need your USB identifier that you can obtain using lsusb.

The SCX range of scanners use the sane-xerox_mfp back-end.

Checking the unstable version (the version you will need to compile from GIT source) again your scanner is not supported.

Possible solution

Possibly you can add your model if it is similar to one of the listed models in the above links. This involves adding the USB ID to /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf together with similar information to the SANE rules in /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules

Obviously change the values to match your scanner.

To give you an example add the following text to /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf:

#Samsung CLX-3185FW
usb 0x04e8 0x343d

and /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules by adding

# Samsung CLX-3185FW
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="343d", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

Make sure you install the following package:

sudo apt-get install acl

_source

If the above does not work, try also adding your user account to groups lp and scanner by:

sudo usermod -a -G lp [username]
sudo usermod -a -G scanner [username]

Related Solutions

Ubuntu – Samsung SCX-4200 Scanner not working (printing OK) 14.04

This is a kind of an old question, but I had similar issues in Ubuntu 18.04.

The problem in my case was USB3. After putting the cable to an USB2 input, it worked all fine.

This has been discussed here (in french language): https://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=2023391

Might be related to this one: scanner of Samsung SCX-4200 does not work on ubuntu 12.10

Ubuntu – Samsung M2070W scanner no longer working in 17.10

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

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
```
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
```
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
```
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
```

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.