Re: [hylafax-users] Unable to view tiff files in whfc/windows

[Mark Halegua <msh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 24 August 2004 05:19, Knut Kroeger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mark Halegua schrieb:
> > On Thursday 19 August 2004 04:29, Knut Kroeger wrote:
> >>Hi Mark,
> >>
> >>Mark Halegua schrieb:
> >>>I've used HylaFAX before and it's a great tool.  I've used WHFC, and it
> >>>works as a Windows client, except ...
> >>>
> >>>I've got several Windows 98 systems, installed WHFC, and the client
> >>> shows several received faxes.  When I click on one of them, the Kodak
> >>> image program opens, but doesn't display the fax.  They're all tiff
> >>> files.
> >>
> >>Did you check the box "fetch received fax via ftp" in system preferences?
> >
> > I checked in as per your suggestion.  Nothing happened.
> >
> >>>The kicker is, my (hopefully) temporary workaround, opening the recvq
> >>>directory using Samba.  When the user clicks on the tiff file, the same
> >>>Kodak imaging program opens up and displays the fax!!!!
> >>
> >>My users would say: Too complicate!
> >
> > Yeah, but it works! ;-)
>
> It´s good to know how you can help yourself, even when it´s not the
> easiest way for the users.... ;-)
>
> >>>I've changed permissions on the files to 660 (-rw-rw---), but that
> >>> hasn't helped.
> >>
> >>You have to change to 664 for the received files if you want to read
> >>them or 666 if you also want to delete them. I don´t know why you have
> >>to do this for world (because you log in with whfc as a user x and the
> >>user is a member of the group uucp) but it works for me. Maybe we need
> >>still a little help from the rest of the list?
> >

For the login I modified the hosts.hfaxd file to allow all the users access.  
This way they don't have to log in.


> > I've changed the permissiions to 664, but that doesn't help printing from
> > the WHFC windows client.
>
> But viewing works?

No.
>
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> What about your settings in "Program and arguments for viewing received
> faxes"  in system preferences? The important thing is the "%s" after the
> path of the viewing program. I use Irfanview for viewing, so my setting
> is " C:\Programme\IrfanView\i_view32.exe %s". Otherwise, if you don´t
> add the "%s" after the path, the viewing app would open, but without the
> fax you want to look at.
>
I added the parameter %S but it didn't work.  Still no viewing.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Mark

>
> Knut
>
>
>
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