Re: [hylafax-users] fax4CUPS questions for hylafax use on Linuxclient

[Hugo Wau <hugowau@freenet.de>]

Am Son, 2003-03-30 um 18.06 schrieb Bret Hughes:
> On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 09:22, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
> > > I've successfully installed hylafax and the sendfax command really works
> > > even from clients. Client users do not like the sendfax command, they
> > > expect a "print-to-fax" application instead. I hope that "fax4CUPS"
> > > could do this. 
> > 
> > This is, of course, the right way for a fax client to work.  Integration with 
> > the printing system is the only way to go.
> > 
> > Where can I get 'fax4CUPS' - I'd be interested in taking a look.
> > 
> > What fax client are you using?  What's needed is a mechanism to enter the fax 
> > number after the file is printed to the "fax printer".
> > 
> 
> I did not see fax4CUPS as we were setting up my first hylafax setup but
> used smbfax instead.  I assum that it works similarly with perhaps the
> difference being that the hook is in the CUPS printing system instead of
> at the Samba printer definition.  smbfax sends the user an email as soon
> as the document is printed to the fax "printer" with a url to an html
> form built via a perl cgi script.  the fax is sent to the modem upon
> form submission.
> 
> it is an easy google to find smbfax.
> 
> It is very cool.  We added a couple of mods to the smbfax script that
> works with the existing exchange server data to fix an issue that arose
> where the users' smtp address does not necessarily correlate with the
> name as the NT Domain user.  Since winbindd is used to support
> authentication to an existing NT PDC, this was required.
> 
> If anyone wants to see our mods I can make a stab at documenting what we
> did and put the stuff on the web.  We just got this working Fri PM after
> a day or so of struggling with a good way to do this without an admin
> needing to manually configure aliases for each user. I HATE manual
> processes.
> 
Bret,
smbfax was not my first choice, since the faxserver has a direct
connection to the internet and for security reasons I do not want to run
samba on this machine.
regards
Hugo



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