Re: flexfax: massive WHFC deployment

[Ben Donohue <donohueb@bvm.com.au>]

Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
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> From: "Andrew Webb" <andrew.webb@rdel.co.uk>
> To: "'Glenn Burkhardt'" <glenn@aoi.ultranet.com>
> Subject: RE: flexfax: Deployment of Hylafax NT client
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:50:07 +0100
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> Hi, the problem is deploying WHFC to all the PC's ! We have potentially over
> 1000 pc's that may eventually want access, and it is preferable to put the
> install file in a share so that users can run it themselves and save paying
> someone to walk round every PC and log in with admin rights ! Ideally it
> would be good to specify some of the options by default as well, so that all
> the user would put in would be name and email. Any ideas ?
> 
> Andy
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> > I don't understand your problem.  After WHFC is installed by the
> > Administrator,
> > ordinary users can send faxes by printing to the fax printer.  You might
> > need to copy the shortcut to WHFC from the Administrator profile to a user
> > profile, but otherwise we don't have any trouble with ordinary users
> > on NT sending faxes.
> >
> >
> > > All,
> > >     I've got Hylafax server up an running on a linux box now, but I
> > > would ideally like to find a client for NT which does not require admin
> > > privilidges to fully install. WHFC installs partly, but needs admin for
> > > the printer port mapping to install properly. Are there any clients other
> > > NT clients which allow 'printing' a fax, or can the fax printer be shared
> > > and still work, allow monitoring and reply emails.
> > >
> > > Andy Webb
> > >
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are you running a server like novell? it has a fantastic program called
ZENworks and that would send the already configured and tested setup to
every PC next time they login. i think NT has a similar one but not
nearly as powerful as ZENworks.
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