Re: flexfax: Problem with whfc via dialup

[Manuel Bessler <mbessler@BfK-HD.de>]

> On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 11:02:04PM +0100, Bernd Proissl wrote:
> > 
> > Same with me!
> > 
> > I cannot use WHFC over IP network boundaries.
> > 
> > I am also develpoing a java hylafax client. it shows the same problem.
> > I haven't had the time to dig into it.
> > 
> > i can do a telnet over network boundaries to hfaxd, i can use some
> > interactive commands. Same is true for my client, but it
> > chrashes (just freezes) when it retrieves the hylafax directories, may be
> > the same with
> > whfc?
> 
> i can ftp to hfaxd from the remote machine, get directory listings, download faxes, so everything works here. As i stated in my first mail, Netscape works too.
> So it should be possible to get this working. I think the problem is Windows IP-Networking/WHFC. Netscape shows that it is possible to make this work. But i also heard the windows sockets api is "brain-dead" .

I'm wondering what Ulrich Eckhardt has to say about this. Since he is the only
one who could fix the problem with WHFC, i'd like to know his opinion on this isssue.

Manuel