Re: flexfax: WHFC and NT - '': Command not understood - progress?

["Alan Sparks" <asparks@nss.harris.com>]

 I've been sitting here thinking about this for awhile... now, I'm a newbie
and don't have a feel for the guts of this thing yet, but it doesn't
completely feel like a client problem to me.

I have Hylafax running on a SunOS 4.1.4 system.  Hfaxd is running old and
new protos on 4557 and 4559.  Also, coincidentally, Sendmail is running
there too.  If I Windows telnet into port 25, I get Sendmail, and can talk
via typed commands fine.  If I telnet into port 4557 or 4559, I get the
Hylafax banner, but the "Syntax error" returned for anything I type (like
QUIT).

Telnet sessions from another Sun or HP box work fine under these scenarios.

My big question at this point is whether there is some socket-based
irregularity on the hfaxd side, some socket option or whatever, that is
making hfaxd not read the input correctly.  I've been thinking that I need
to compare the hfaxd socket-read code against another OK program (like
sendmail).

Does this sound plausible?  Ulrich, you say you know approx. where in whfc
the problem occurs (not necessarily why)... any thoughts you could share?

Thanks in advance.
-Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Ulrich Eckhardt <uli@transcom.de>
To: Alan Sparks <asparks@nss.harris.com>
Cc: flexfax@sgi.com <flexfax@sgi.com>
Date: Monday, September 29, 1997 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: flexfax: WHFC and NT - '': Command not understood - progress?



>Alan Sparks wrote:
>>
>>  Sorry, the message really is 500 '': Syntax error, expecting command
>> token."
>> I've tried this out on Win95 boxes here too, with the same results.
>> Actually seems that when confronted with this situation, whfc cycles
through
>> many error messages about socket connection problems, and ultimately
trashes
>> my Windows session.
>> -Alan
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>i got debug logs from some people here. So i know which part of
>whfc causes the trouble, but i currently don't know why. It seems
>that some data get send in the wrong order. Seems to me like
>another bug in Windows. But i can't test it here because i haven't
>access to a sun or hp - unix box.
>
>Uli
>--
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