Photocopiers – adding a copier as a printer on Windows 10 laptops

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Jun 072018
 

These instructions are for University provisioned Windows 10 laptops.

Please note that University Common Desktop PCs (both Windows 7 and 10) will automatically add the photocopiers as a printer called ‘IGM Copier’.

If you are using a private/personal laptop (Windows 7, Windows 10, Apple, or Linux), please come and see us in room B245, 2nd floor, BioMedicine West building, for further advice.

Ensure that you have an internet connection
Click on Windows logo
Click settings icon (cog)
Click Devices
Click Printers & Scanners
Click +Add a printer
Wait, while Windows lists every possible printer it can see. This is not helpful, in this case!
Scroll down the list and click ‘The printer that I want isn’t listed’
Click ‘Select a shared printer by name’
In the box underneath, carefully type \\medson\
When you press that final \ key, a drop-down menu will appear. Scroll down the list and choose ‘IGM Copier’
The address/name of printer should now read as \\medson\IGM Copier
Click Next
Wait, while Windows configures the printer
Click Next
Click Finish

Windows 10 Linux subsystem

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Dec 062017
 

*** Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install-win10
(Ubuntu, Ope*S*se, and SL*S are currently available. Fedora is due at some stage)

It is possible that the WLS should mount any pre-existing Windows drives automatically. This was not the case for me, so below are workarounds. It is possible that, as WLS matures, these steps are not required.

*** Add your *existing* Windows drives e.g. your University research folders

In this example, our Windows 10 PC automatically adds the Institute Z: and O: drives at login. We can use these pre-existing Windows drives and mount them.

IGM example – O: and Z: drives:

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/o
$ sudo mount -t drvfs O: /mnt/o

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/z
$ sudo mount -t drvfs Z: /mnt/z

OR directly mount University drives. In this example, we will mount the Flow Cytometry drives (amend your drive letters; these are what we use here at the IGM). S: drive represents the live/instrument data; R: drive represents archived FC data.

Example 1:

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/s
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/r

$ sudo mount -t drvfs '\\fsarchive.ncl.ac.uk\IHGScratch\FLOWCF' /mnt/s
$ sudo mount -t drvfs '\\fsresearch2-dbx.ncl.ac.uk\IGM_FLOWCF' /mnt/r

Example 2:

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/s
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/r

$ sudo mount -t drvfs '\\campus.ncl.ac.uk\scratch\IHGSCRATCH\FLOWCF' /mnt/s
$ sudo mount -t drvfs '\\campus.ncl.ac.uk\IGM\FLOWCF' /mnt/r