Re: [hylafax-users] Unable to view tiff files in whfc/windows

[Mark Halegua <msh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 19 August 2004 04:29, Knut Kroeger wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Mark Halegua schrieb:
> > I've used HylaFAX before and it's a great tool.  I've used WHFC, and it
> > works as a Windows client, except ...
> >
> > I've got several Windows 98 systems, installed WHFC, and the client shows
> > several received faxes.  When I click on one of them, the Kodak image
> > program opens, but doesn't display the fax.  They're all tiff files.
>
> Did you check the box "fetch received fax via ftp" in system preferences?

I checked in as per your suggestion.  Nothing happened.
>
> > The kicker is, my (hopefully) temporary workaround, opening the recvq
> > directory using Samba.  When the user clicks on the tiff file, the same
> > Kodak imaging program opens up and displays the fax!!!!
>
> My users would say: Too complicate!

Yeah, but it works! ;-)
>
> > I've changed permissions on the files to 660 (-rw-rw---), but that hasn't
> > helped.
>
> You have to change to 664 for the received files if you want to read
> them or 666 if you also want to delete them. I don´t know why you have
> to do this for world (because you log in with whfc as a user x and the
> user is a member of the group uucp) but it works for me. Maybe we need
> still a little help from the rest of the list?

I've changed the permissiions to 664, but that doesn't help printing from the 
WHFC windows client.

Any other suggestions?

Mark


>
> Knut


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