I am interested in talking with anyone who has successfully used Samba to print from a Unix machine to Winfax. Like most Windows Fax programs, Winfax uses a fake printer to send the data to Winfax. However, although Winfax pops up when I use Samba to print to it, the actual data does not appear. Please contact me if you have any hints on this -- Since I am not a subscriber of this list, please email me directly. Thanks Patrick
Patrick J.M. Keane wrote:> > I am interested in talking with anyone who has successfully used Samba > to print from a Unix machine to Winfax. Like most Windows Fax > programs, Winfax uses a fake printer to send the data to Winfax. > However, although Winfax pops up when I use Samba to print to it, the > actual data does not appear. Please contact me if you have any hints > on this -- > > Since I am not a subscriber of this list, please email me directly. > > Thanks > Patrick >I?ve considered the idea of using WINFAX, but I use HylaFAX instead! HylaFAX is a written by Sam_Leffler@SGI and friends. It is free OpenSource Software (like SAMBA), running on almost all Unixes, very stable and reliable, and the are some fine (free) M$-Win96/98/NT clients like WHFC. In our office, the Unix-box is the only machine running 24 hours a day. All clients (WIN9x,NT) and our Unix-application (self-coded/Informix-based) put some faxjobs to the Unixbox and HylaFAX sends the faxes immediately or scheduled over night. If you?ve managed to configure SAMBA, you will sure succeed in running HylaFAX too. If you?ve got trouble, there exist also a list with a lot of HylaFAX-gurus to subscribe to. Have a look at www.sgi.com (I don?t remember the URL exactly, but if you ?re interested - I can find it out for you. best regards juergen
Jan Kratochvil wrote:> > > In our office, the Unix-box is the only machine running 24 hours a day. > > All clients (WIN9x,NT) and our Unix-application > > (self-coded/Informix-based) put some faxjobs to the Unixbox and HylaFAX > > sends the faxes immediately or scheduled over night. > > > > If you?ve managed to configure SAMBA, you will sure succeed in running > > HylaFAX too. If you?ve got trouble, there exist also a list with a lot > > of HylaFAX-gurus to subscribe to. > > Sorry to bothering you but exist there also some (possible free) > solution to RETRIEVE faxes received on the UNIX (server) box and look > at them/print them on the Win9x machines? > Last time (a year or two) I checked, only sending from Win9x to UNIX > was implemented. > > Thanks for info, LaceYou can send *and* receive faxes on your Unix system through HylaFAX (and HylaFAX is free)!!! Although we use HylaFAX in our office as a send-only system, you can receive faxes too. Let HylaFAX store them as TIFF files in a SAMBA-share and look at them with with favourite WIN-TIFF-viewer. I?ll post this letter in the SAMBA-digest again, but also I?ll post it in the Hylafax-digest. Some people there can surely tell you more about HylaFAX. If you?ve got problems - don?t hesitate to mail me again. best regards juergen