Newbie question: I have successfully set up a samba server for file & print sharing. What I'm not sure about is how to set up a fax server. Has anyone tried to do this? What all do you have to do, or maybe you could just point me in the right direction. ==========================================Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX (817)556-4720 lewisc@swau.edu FAX (360)397-7952 ===========================================
I am currently running a fax server using Samba on RH6.0 with a program called "respond" which was written by Horst F. You can get the program and associated utils from http://www.boerde.de:/~horstf/ Its a great little utility which works with the mgetty+sendfax software in Linux and has a windows 95/98/NT client which pops up when you send data to the fax printer. It was very easy to install. You will need Perl running on your linux system and you should edit the printfax.pl, lprmfax.pl, and lpqfax.pl scripts to change the "user" setting from the default of <mail> to read <user>. (without the <> chars). Anyway, hope that helps Ken Smith
> > I have successfully set up a samba server for file & print sharing. WhatI'm> not sure about is how to set up a fax server. Has anyone tried to do this? > > >>>>>>>Can samba do this? > > What all do you have to do, or maybe you could just point me in the right > direction. > > > >>>>>>>If possible, please send me the direction also. I'm trying tosetup one,> but under NT platform. If samba can, then no reason to do NT server. > >Thanks to Ken Smith for the link for Respond. I bought a Sams book on samba by Gerald Carter & Richard Sharpe that also pointed me to HylaFAX: www.vix.com/hylafax and mgetty+sendfax: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/Serial/mgetty+sendfax I haven't had the time to evaluate these solutions yet due to some pressing responsibilities, but I'm looking forward to providing this kind of functionality for the university. ==========================================Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX (817)556-4720 lewisc@swau.edu FAX (360)397-7952 ===========================================