Re: Faxing and Samba

[Yngvi Sigurjonsson <yngvi@hagkaup.is>]

> Please forgive me if this has been discussed already (new to the group 
> but did check the archives) I would like to use Samba and Hylafax to do a 
> Mass fax of about 400 numbers a day. The list of numbers really wouldn't 
> change to often so I don't need a fancy windows interface to chose the 
> To: info. I figured something like 
> sendfax -n -d `cat /tmp/numbers` /tmp/tmp.print
> might work where tmp.print is a postscript file. Initial testing from a $ 
> prompt seems promising but when I try it without being logged in with a 
> shell it just fails. Any ideals, hints, or pointers to other great genius 
> would be appreciated.

I am not sure I understand you correctly, but if you are looking for a
way to let a smb client(eg. win95 ) start a command on a Samba server
on a Unix box, you might want to check out the smb.conf parameter
"magic script" see smb.conf(5). You should also be aware of environment
variables that might not get initialized. 

There are of course also some issues regarding win95 ps-drivers and
ghostscript, if that is your problem I can't help.