Re: [hylafax-users] Jury still out on new fax server

[Pedro Rocadas <procadas@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Frank Griffith <max29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am running Hylafax-4.1.7 on a FreeBSD-4.9 server.
> The fax server has been successful at sending and
> receiving faxes, several dozen so far. I can sendfax
> all I want from the fax server's console.
> 
> I use WinPrintHylafax to print jobs from Windows
> apps run on Win2K/XP workstations on the LAN
> It works but : 
> 
> 1. It sometimes takes up to 2-3 min. after you send
> a job from a Windows workstation before you hear
> the modem fire up and go! Is this long of a delay
> normal?
> 
> 2. Only one of the workstations has been able to
> print
> to the fax server successfully. The setup was
> followed
> exactly as before and repeated just to be sure, but
> so
> far only one workstation has sent a fax
> successfully.
> The others show no error messages or queued status
> at all. The station that works immediately gets a 
> message that the job was sent. 
>

For windows client my advice is always WHFC ;-).
 
> The IT guy had to come and help with this install as
> you need higher than normal user rights to build the
> new WinPrintFAX port. He used the Administrator
> login but jobs failed whether he used the user's
> login
> of the Administrator login.
> --------------------------------------
> /var/spool/hylafax/etc/hosts.hfaxd
> --------------------------------------
> localhost
> 127.0.0.1
> 192/.168/.100/.
> --------------------------------------
> This is supposed to allow all clients on 192.168.100
> network access the fax server. But so far only one
> of
> them, my XP Pro laptop get's the job done.

You must add the users in hosts.hfaxd. Use faxadduser
for this task.

> 
> 3. The clients available are scarce and not that
> user
> friendly. I could run it, but the lady at the front
> desk
> who will have to distribute the faxes and answer all
> those phones must be able to breeze through it or
> it's
> not feasible. Are the other clients out there for 
> Windows beyond those shown at hylafax.org?
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> 

Did you tried WHFC?

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