Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax vs mgetty and sendfax

["Brian Johnson" <bjohnson@jecinc.on.ca>]

Does that handle auto-login from Windows clients?

Do they all login under one username or are can all users use their own user
id and password?

Does anyone know if there are advantages to Hylafax that justify the switch
from mgetty and sendfax?




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Burkhardt [mailto:glenn@aoi-industries.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:46 AM
> To: Brian Johnson
> Cc: hylafax-users@hylafax.org
> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax vs mgetty and sendfax
>
>
> > Does anyone have any experience with these two software
> packages - I'm
> > trying to
> > figure out which one to use
> >
> > I currently have mgetty set up to auto start ppp
> connections for incoming
> > phone
> > calls so have a tendency to stick with it and it's sendfax package
> >
> > But it looks like Hylafax will do something similar and has
> a cups printer
> > driver
> > and windows clients (for my heterogeneous network) that make it look
> > appealing
> >
> > It also looks like hylafax will support modem pooling
> groups (although I
> > don't need
> > this feature at this time - it may be useful in the future)
>
> I was just looking at mgetty and I don't think it can be used
> with Hylafax,
> at least without an investigation.  But, I've run Hylafax, dialin PPP,
> regular logins, and dialout clients all on the same line.  As long
> as all the programs respect UUCP port locking, no toes get stepped on.
>
> For PPP dialin, just have an account set up that executes a
> script instead
> of a login shell.  For example, I have an /etc/passwd entry:
>
> ppp-login:8iCigElf8MzuA:601:600:PPP
> login:/tmp:/usr/local/etc/ppp-login
>
> with the script:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> #
> echo start
> TTY=`tty`
> TTY=`basename $TTY`
> exec /usr/sbin/pppd file /etc/ppp/options.$TTY
>


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