Synology USB Printer Configure

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1. Login via browser, to Synology NAS
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click File Services
4. Search SSH
5. Check Enable SSH service
6. Click Apply
7. Close Control Panel
8. Open File Station
9. Click home
10. Click Create
11. Click Create Folder
12. Name it Script
13. Click OK
14. Click Script
15. On your computer, Open Notepad or Mousepad
16. Paste the following code:

    #!/bin/sh
    docker run -d \--name=p910nd \--privileged \-p 9100:9100 \-v /dev/usb/lp0:/dev/usb/lp0 \justinhimself/p910nd:latest '-b' '-d' '-f' '/dev/usb/lp0'

17. Save as printer_configure.sh
18. Drag file to the Script folder you created on your NAS
19. Open Package Center
20. Click All Packages
21. Search for Container Manager
22. Install Container Manager
23. Open Container Manager
24. Click Registry
25. Search for p910nd
26. Download justinhimself/p910nd
27. Close Container Manager
28. Open Command Prompt or Terminal
29. Type ssh username@port and when asked enter your password
30. Type cd /dev/usb/lp0
    If found, the printer should be able to be configured.
31. Type exit
32. Type ssh username@port and when asked enter your password
33. Type cd Script
34. Type chmod +x printer_configure.sh
35. Type bash printer_configure.sh
    At this point, it should create a Container called p910nd
36. Add the network printer on your system at NAS IP address
    If it prints the page , after adding it, all is fine, until you restart your NAS
37. Go to your NAS
38. Click Control Panel
39. Click Task Schedular
40. Click Create
41. Click Scheduled Task
    
42. Click User-defined script
43. Task name Printer-Restart
44. Click Schedule
45. Set Repeat Daily
46. Start time of your choice
47. Check Continue running within the same day
48. Repeat Every hour
49. Last run time of your choice
50. Click Task Settings
51. Paste the following code in User-defined script
    #!/bin/shLOG="/var/log/p910nd.log"echo script started at \date +%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M\ >> $LOG/usr/local/bin/inotifywait -m -e create --include 'usb' /dev | while read changed; do /usr/local/bin/docker restart p910nd ; echo [\date +%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M\] restarting p910nd >> $LOG; done
52. Click OK
53. Click Apply
54. Close Control Panel
55. Click Control Panel
56. Click File Services
57. Search SSH
58. Uncheck Enable SSH service
59. Now the code above (in step 51) should restart the printer when you power off the device and the first script (in step 16) can be deleted, if you want.

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