Hello Does anyone have experience setting up Windows so that it can fax to a fax server on Linux. I've tried setting up efax on the LP port and making it available under SMB but this didn't work. GThere is no windows client which will let you put the phone number anywher ;) Something I should have though of prior. Ruben -- Brooklyn Linux Solutions http://www.mrbrklyn.com http://www.brooklynonline.com 1-718-382-5752
You can do this with the Respond program. Look at http://relay.boerde.de/~horstf/ Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO" <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com>; <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:05 AM Subject: Fax from Windows Hello Does anyone have experience setting up Windows so that it can fax to a fax server on Linux. I've tried setting up efax on the LP port and making it available under SMB but this didn't work. GThere is no windows client which will let you put the phone number anywher ;) Something I should have though of prior. Ruben -- Brooklyn Linux Solutions http://www.mrbrklyn.com http://www.brooklynonline.com 1-718-382-5752 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
> Does anyone have experience setting up Windows so that it can fax to > a fax server on Linux. I've tried setting up efax on the LP port and > making it available under SMB but this didn't work. GThere is no > windows client which will let you put the phone number anywher ;) > Something I should have though of prior.hylafax on the linux box + this driver for the windows boxes: http://www.transcom.de/whfc/ the page is in english. Alain
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO wrote:> Hello > > Does anyone have experience setting up Windows so that it can fax to a fax > server on Linux. I've tried setting up efax on the LP port and making it > available under SMB but this didn't work. GThere is no windows client > which will let you put the phone number anywher ;) Something I should have > though of prior.If you only have a few boxes, you can use a client FAX driver under Windows. If you have many boxes, this becomes a lot to manage and a server-only version is better (like smbfax): http://inconnu.isu.edu/~ink/new/links/projects/links/smbfax/ Of course, I'm not partial or anything... :) -- It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard Craig Kelley -- kellcrai@isu.edu http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger ink@inconnu.isu.edu for PGP block
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO" <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com>; <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 7:05 AM Subject: Fax from Windows> Hello > > Does anyone have experience setting up Windows so that it can fax to a fax > server on Linux. I've tried setting up efax on the LP port and making it > available under SMB but this didn't work. GThere is no windows client > which will let you put the phone number anywher ;) Something I should have > though of prior. >This is exactly what I have been recently working on for a customer. The samba docs do contain some quick docs in English on how to do this with mgetty+sendfax but unfortunately it wasn't working over here and the comments in the script are German. So I started from scratch using some of the same ideas but using efax and perl instead. The trick is that you install a postscript printer (e.g. Apple Laserwriter) on the windows machines and point it to the samba server. Since postscript is plain text you can parse it for the phone number and then pass that off to efax (efax then automatically converts your postscript document to fax format and sends it off.) This approach allows for some pretty serious magic because you can do things like email the windows user a fax transmittal report indicating success or failure, write some cgi's which allow for managing the fax-queue via the web etc. etc. More info is here: http;//www.symonds.net/~mark/pics/sendfax I would genuinely appreciate any suggestions/contributions on improving the script (spaghetti; but it seems to be working quite well) ... also would like to document everything more clearly and maybe it could get included in the samba-docs? -- Mark
Also my apologies for cross-posting there; I didn't realize the original poster had crossposted until right when I hit "send" (argh.) -- Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Symonds" <mark@symonds.net> To: <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>; <suse-linux-e@suse.com>; <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:46 PM Subject: Re: Fax from Windows> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO" <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> > To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com>; <samba@lists.samba.org> > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 7:05 AM > Subject: Fax from Windows > > > > Hello > > > > Does anyone have experience setting up Windows so that it can fax to a fax > > server on Linux. I've tried setting up efax on the LP port and making it > > available under SMB but this didn't work. GThere is no windows client > > which will let you put the phone number anywher ;) Something I should have > > though of prior. > ><snip>