[hylafax-users] RE : RE : SambaFax problem scanning Fax-Nr

[Shafeer Hajamohideen <shafeer@dichtelemente.de>]

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 16:24, Xware wrote:
> IMHO, this has perhaps something to do with cups. I never tried it with
> cups but it works pretty well with the Hp driver and LPR samba side... 
> Perhaps should you look this way ?
> 

In my earlier post, i've told that sendfax can't recognise the file
format unless its printed as EPS. I've temporarily made a fix in the
sambafax script file for the moment to test this!

To my surprise it worked! Here is the change I made to the sambafax
script;

#!/bin/sh
# constants
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
PS2ASCII="/usr/bin/ps2ascii"
# Included this to fix the file send from the WIN'98 client
FIXPS="/usr/bin/fixps"       
AWK="/bin/awk"
SENDFAX="/usr/bin/sendfax"

# make up a temporary file
FAXFILE=/tmp/sambafax.$$
# make a temp file that is used to fix the incoming ps format
PSFILE=/tmp/sambafax.ps

# retrieve the username and hostname from the paramaters
Username=$2

..[snip]..

# if faxnumber is found fax the tempfile
# we donot check the validity of the faxnumber, let sendfax do this...
if [ "${FAXNUM}" = "" ] ; then

..[snip]..

else
  # Included to fix the file to comply with the format supported by
sendfax
  ${FIXPS} ${FAXFILE} -o ${PSFILE}
  ${SENDFAX} -n -D -f ${MailTo} -d ${FAXNUM} ${PSFILE}
fi

# remove the temp file
rm -f ${FAXFILE}
# also remove the ps file
rm -f ${PSFILE}
# end of show

But I think there should be some better way to do this (i.e) to tell the
windows client to print as EPS or may be something else in the server
side. I'm a newbie and I don't know what could be a good solution.

Thanks for your help and support!

-Shafeer

> --
> Phil.
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : hylafax-users-bounce@hylafax.org
> [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@hylafax.org] De la part de Shafeer
> Hajamohideen
> Envoyé : mardi 13 mai 2003 15:56
> À : Xware
> Cc : hylafax-users@hylafax.org
> Objet : Re: [hylafax-users] RE : SambaFax problem scanning Fax-Nr
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your valuable advise.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 09:22, Xware wrote:
> > Well it has perhaps something to do with the driver. You should try 
> > this
> > :
> > Use the Hewlett-packard laserjet 4 PS driver.
> > Set the postscript option to : maximum portability.
> > The number is perhaps not understood because of a postscript problem
> > (like generation encapsulated code or something like that).
> > Hope this helps.
> First thing I've changed the client side driver of the sambafax printer
> from Apple PostScript driver to HP laserjet 4/4L PS and printed a word
> document containing a line with;
> 
> Fax-Nr : 04077291010
> 
> 
> > Remember : in any case, no dashes, no points, no spaces in the fax 
> > number (the script cuts the number as soon as it encounters something 
> > else than a number)
> 
> Then I changed the format of the fax number in the debug script from the
> format;
> 
> FAXDEST="+49-40-77291010"
> 
> to 
> 
> FAXDEST="04077291010" 
> 
> without any spaces, dots or dashes, the debug script worked, I got a
> mail, got a test fax and it seems the problem lies in ps2ascii
> conversion. The debug log looks like this;
> 
> your sambafax-script has been started!
> cat: -: Bad file descriptor
> cat: -: Bad file descriptor
> cat: -: Bad file descriptor
> cat: -: Bad file descriptor
> 
> p0: /usr/lib/cups/backend/sambafax  --this is the sambafaxscript and
> location
> p1: 
> p2:   --under cups this should be the username
> p3: 
> p4: 
> p5: 
> p6:   --under cups this is optional the sambafax temporary printfilename
> p7: 
> p8: 
> 
> program /usr/sbin/sendmail exists
> program /usr/bin/ps2ascii exists
> program /bin/awk exists
> program /usr/bin/sendfax exists
> /usr/bin/ps2ascii: line 18:   740 Killed                  gs $OPTIONS -c
> save -f ps2ascii.ps $1 -c quit
> 
> Faxnumber extracted: "".
> The mailing system is tested, you (root) should receive a mail request
> id is 2 (group id 2) for host localhost (1 file) A fax is sent to
> 04077291010, check it out If it does not come out, or if you see errors,
> you are NOT using the correct sendfax (have you installed a different
> faxspooler as well?) end-of-debuglog
> 
> Please note the fax number extracted from the file I send is not
> recognised. I tried to convert sambafax.debug.ps to ascii which gives an
> error;
> 
> # ps2ascii smabafax.debug.log debug.txt
> GNU Gostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> #
> 
> Is that something to do with driver again or there is no Gostscript
> installed?
> 
> 
> Thanks again,
> Shafeer.
> 
> 
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