Re: [hylafax-users] HylaFAX/smbfax fails near end "COMMAND FAILED"

["Guy Daniel" <guy@ezyit.com.au>]

To he who doesn't believe in white space:

I've got Hylafax going without any client software.

I think (never had occasion to do so yet) you can manage your faxes with the
standard Windows printer queue.

I just attach a coverpage to the front of the document (eg Openoffice.org
Writer) with the words "Fax To:" on it and a number after that.

This gets printed to a standard Samba network printer (Apple laserwriter Pro
600 PS).

I have a little shell script that acts as a printer driver on the Unix side,
which calls a C program I wrote that parses the postscript for the fax
number. The shell script sends the fax on the info given back by the C
program, or sends the faxer a message if there is no "Fax To:" found in the
document.

It was pretty easy to set up and now we even fax Purchase Orders straight
from our accounting system to the supplier.

I use OpenBSD & I dunno how this translates to your OS on the printer driver
side. With BSD you modify a file called /etc/printcap to add the printer &
tell it where your printer driver (script) is.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven S. Macfarlane" <steven@grandypratt.com>
To: <hylafax-users@hylafax.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:05 AM
Subject: [hylafax-users] HylaFAX/smbfax fails near end "COMMAND FAILED"


> Hello all,
> I raided a post http://www.hylafax.org/archive/2001-08/msg00036.php by a
> "Jon M. McNamara" for this one since it seems so close to the trouble I am
> having with a very similar setup **and** I can't find any follow up to his
> post, so I thought I'd see if anyone else cares to take a stab...
> Hardware: Pentium 90Mhz; 32MB RAM; MultiSystems Multitech ZDX36
> Platform: Slackware 8.0 2.2.19 Kernel ('stock', w/glibc-2.2.3, Perl 5.6.1,
> using the supplied Apache 1.3.2 and Samba 2.2.0a. Added the required Perl
> Modules for smbfax (CGI, Digest::MD5, Net::SMTP))
> Goal: Build a  Fax Server for about 50 internal Win98 clients using
HylaFAX
> 4.1.2 and smbfax 1.4 (latest release), and Apache, and Samba. Don't want
to
> put ANYTHING on the client except another print driver (comes with
Windows)
> which is why the HylaFAX/smbfax combo looked so attractive.
> Compiled HylaFAX 1.4 with out any issues. Faxmodem was set up OK. I AM
able
> to do 'sendfax' from the command prompt - works repeatedly, reliably and
> fine. 'Faxstatus' seems to give good and correct information each time.
> Modem, port, locks, etc. seemed to open and close correctly. Command line
> switches seemed to respond OK (Cover Page, No cover page, e-mail notif.,
NO
> e-mail notif., etc). So HylaFAX, I was guessing was looking good at this
> point. Apache and Samba are running without errors. I went through the
> procedure for smbfax and had to do the Perl 5.6 "wrapper" thing they
suggest
> to get it run suid correctly. OK, that worked. Went through carefully and
> made some path corrections for smbfax as per my distro (ie. where sendfax
> and other HylaFAX programs are located, etc.) OK, no problems, plenty of
> commentary in the .conf files, etc... So at this point, the whole 'chain'
> almost works: I can print to the Samba printer (Samba passes to smbfax), I
> get the e-mail notification to "Complete Your Fax"(Sendmail is routing),
the
> CGI appears to activate correctly (Apache/Perl::CGI responds) when I
follow
> the link from the e-mail (I get the 'fax completion' page), I can fill out
> the form as desired with the number, and select the coupla' options as
> desired... The rub is, when I press the "Send Fax" button at the bottom of
> the form, I actually get the message (page is returned to the browser)
that
> says "Fax Sent", but then right below that (in that same page) is an error
> message "COMMAND FAILED" and then below that: (returned non-zero exit
status
> "255") There is no error message sent back via e-mail (as is suggested in
> this 'completion page'), and since the server (in prototype mode) is
sitting
> right next to me here in my office, I can say for certain that I never
hear
> the modem go "off-hook" to attempt to fax anything via HylaFAX - nor does
> anything ever appear in HylaFAX's 'fax sent log'. It's like the final
> "handoff" to HylaFAX isn't taking place.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven Macfarlane
>
> steven@grandypratt.com.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
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