Re: [hylafax-users] Remote receipt of fax

[Randal Jarrett <randalj@hhsys.org>]

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 02:41, Holger Raschke wrote:
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> > I probably should not have brought up the barcodes at all.
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> > The problem is to receive a fax at a remote hylafax server and forward
> > it over the network to the main hylafax server and have it processed as
> > a received fax.
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> The problem is, that you are stuck on HylaFAX doing the job with 
> restrictions on using nfs or samba. There won't be a solution this way! 
> May be, your boss is the problem, as he wants this.
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> HylaFAX is able to receive a fax and passes the information to faxrcvd 
> or whatever script you want. You are free to modify faxrcvd in any way 
> to solve your problem. You can even do special handling based on all 
> parameters that are passed to the script and are usually used for 
> email-based routing.

Yes, HylaFAX is able to receive fax as you mention, but only through a
local modem. If it "receives" a fax via a network client it expects to
send it out.

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> So why don't you transfer the remote tiff-files via ftp to a directory 
> on your main server? Watch this directory for new files and call faxrcvd 
> with all parameters neccessary (including the tiff file).

My suggestion was to 'scp' the files across and use 'ssh' to pass it to
faxrcvd with the proper params.

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Randal Jarrett
randalj@hhsys.org
Information Technology 
Huntsville Hospital 
Phone 256-864-4755 (desk)  256-755-0505 (cell)
Fax 256-864-4505

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