RE: flexfax: Hylafax future

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Robert Colquhoun wrote:

> I was thinking of a proper windows driver which would have an automatic
> setup and only ran when the client printed or wanted to view the queue.
> 
> I've basically decided there are two ways to do this:
> 
> Method A - SMB, Samba method - You need to setup the server to run Samba to
> do SMB networking, setup a SMB shared directory ie \\HylaServer\fax which
> contains some special files through which server and client communicate ie
> FIFOs sort of like /proc under linux(MS-Fax and response use this method)
> Advantages - seems to be the standard way for windows network printers to
> operate
> Disadvantage - you have to get Samba working on your server as well

Fortunately, Samba is fairly easy. And it's considerably more secure
than the standard Microsoft based servers, based on my discussions
with network security consultants. I mean, keeping people's passwords
on line in a readable format is not my idea of wise....

And the latest versions of it compile and install quite nicely under
SunOS: A single printer service for HylaFAX could be easily added to
the configuration file, and all other services turned off if necessary.

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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