RE: flexfax: WHFC: Log File?

[Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>]

On 15-May-99 Jim Frentress wrote:
> can you explain this for me. what is WHFC and how do i get it (i
> assume it's a windows hylafax client)?

You can get it from the links button on http://www.hylafax.org.

And it's the windows client as you thought.

> can you not do a sendfax on the hylafax server? what error would you
> get if you do? i'm getting a 530 message about invalid permissions
> for root and i've got the hosts entries that should allow everything.

I don't have any problems from the server itself.  

Have you checked the FAQ on hylafax.org?  I think you need to run the
server with the user "fax".  I didn't have this problem, since it ran
out of the box for me.

> btw: this is happening on both SunOS and SuSE.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:        Dave Wreski [SMTP:dave@nic.com]
>> Sent:        Friday, May 14, 1999 4:41 PM
>> To:  Patrick Gardella
>> Cc:  flexfax@sgi.com
>> Subject:     Re: flexfax: WHFC: Log File?
>> 
>> 
>> > I've just installed HylaFax 4.0pl2 and WHFC 1.0.5 in a client's
>> > office.
>> > Everything worked fine while I was there, but now that I've left,
>> > it's
>> > giving them an error.  When they open WHFC, they get "Cannot Open
>> > Log
>> > File".  
>> 
>> In a somewhat-related question, I had also been considering
>> installing
>> this in a client's office.  Perhaps your experience can help.
>> 
>> Did you adapt a Linux box with hylafax on it to their existing
>> network, or
>> did you set up their entire network, including choosing IP
>> addresses, etc?
>> I'm asking this because in order to sell my services, I'd either
>> have to
>> have some sort of installation routine that assigns the fax server
>> an IP
>> address, or physically set it up for them..
>> 
>> Are you providing support for WHFC?  Does your client worry about
>> the fact
>> the only access to the fax server is remotely, through WHFC? 
>> Speaking to
>> a potential client, he had a hard time understanding that you don't
>> have
>> to physically walk over to the machine to view what it's doing;
>> rather,
>> you can view it's status right from his PC.
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> Thanks much,
>> Dave Wreski
>> 

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