Re: FW: flexfax: whfc (My turn :-) )

[Damian A Ivereigh <damian@cisco.com>]

I think this is an area that is going to need some coding. However it
will need a change in the server and the WHFC client. The other problem
that might be encountered is that proxy servers understand the ftp
protocol and might do some surreptitious fiddling to make it work. They
will not do this with the fax "FTP" protocol though. So we may be onto a
non-starter.

You may want to look at other ways to get the fax to the server e.g.
printing using Samba, or even emailing the postscript file. Neither
though are as neat as WHFC though.

Damian

Charles J. Boening wrote:
> 
> This could be.  I do know that to others, my IP address seems to be that of
> my proxy server and not my real internal IP number.  Hmmmm ... anybody?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damian A Ivereigh [mailto:damian@cisco.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 1998 3:17 PM
> To: Charles J. Boening; flexfax@sgi.com
> Subject: Re: FW: flexfax: whfc (My turn :-) )
> 
> Hmm, since the protocol is basically an extended FTP protocol, I wonder
> if it has the same problem going through firewalls and proxy devices
> that FTP does. I.e. in ftp you have to use passive mode, so that the
> data connection is always opened from inside the wall.
> 
> You could also be suffering from TCP/IP masquerading - where the IP
> address from inside is not what programs see from the outside - I think
> the FTP protocol actually sends the IP address within the protocol.
> Again maybe a passive mode would fix this.
> 
> Damian
> 
> Charles J. Boening wrote:
> >
> > I too was having similar problems.  I got it working from home ok, after
> > fixing the entry in the hosts file, but not at work.  The difference at
> work
> > is that my workstation is behind MS Proxy Server.  When I try to establish
> a
> > connection, I get a response that the server is ready (the same one you
> get
> > if you telnet to the server) and then it times out with an error to the
> > effect "no route to host"
> >
> > Also ... I can't seem to get it to logon as admin.  it always says "bad
> > password".  I've tried setting up the user in the hosts file, but no dice.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:jonc@pinnacle.co.nz]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 06, 1998 8:31 PM
> > To: Fred Ng
> > Cc: Hylafax
> > Subject: Re: flexfax: whfc
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Fred Ng wrote:
> >
> > > I have configured a hylafax server. However when I logon from whfc
> > (windows
> > > client application), it keep saying that password is incorrect, no user
> > can
> > > login to the server, can anyone confirmed on which part of the server
> had
> > > went wrong.
> >
> > You need to set up the HylaFAX hosts(4f) file to allow access from
> > your WHFC client. Check out the man page for more details.
> >
> > Jonathan Chen
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >              "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything,
> >                                         specialisation is for insects"
> 
> --
>  ______________________________________________________________________
> * Damian Ivereigh     *      ||        ||      * Cisco Systems, Inc.   *
> * MIS Printer Admin   *    .||||.    .||||.    * Sydney, Australia     *
> * Linux Bigot         * ..:||||||:..:||||||:.. * +61 2 8448 7344       *
> * damian@cisco.com    *   cisco Systems, Inc.  * Fax: +61 2 8448 7228  *
> *______________________________________________________________________*

-- 
 ______________________________________________________________________
* Damian Ivereigh     *      ||        ||      * Cisco Systems, Inc.   *
* MIS Printer Admin   *    .||||.    .||||.    * Sydney, Australia     *
* Linux Bigot         * ..:||||||:..:||||||:.. * +61 2 8448 7344       *
* damian@cisco.com    *   cisco Systems, Inc.  * Fax: +61 2 8448 7228  *
*______________________________________________________________________*