Re: [hylafax-users] FaxNotify, sendfax,

[joea <joea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Terminal Services is in the mix for some users.  Novell eDirectory is in play
accessible via LDAP.

joea

Donald, Adam<adam.donald@xxxxxxxxxxx> Boldly Declared: 5/26/2006 6:52 PM:
> (Solution for Windows clients only for faxing via printer) If you used 
> samba
> and fixed IP addresses and each user would use their own PC, you could
> create a printer in samba that mapped back to a script and would 
> determine
> the correct email address based on the IP address from the submitting
> machine.  If your users are using different machines and you are using 
> MS
> Active Directory (assuming still that all your fax clients are using
> Windows), you could ensure that the user's email addresses are entered 
> into
> their AD account, and then use samba-tng to get the current user name 
> from
> the registry of the IP address that printed to the fax printer, and 
> then use
> samba/samba-tng to query the AD to get the user's email address (haven't
> done the email address query part but should be possible).  Either way, 
> the
> samba printer script could run a 'sendfax -D' with the email address 
> that it
> found by the 'IP --> email' mapping or the 'IP --> Win user name --> AD 
> -->
> email' query.  Neither way will work if your users are using Terminal
> Services to run their print/fax from.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of joea
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 5:11 PM
> To: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> Subject: [hylafax-users] FaxNotify, sendfax, 
> 
> I gleaned the following from the archives: 
> "  Query? Is there anything else I have to do beside creating FaxNotify 
> file
> in /var/spool/fax/etc to get notification of faxes sent? 
> 
> Ans:
> The job has to be submitted with notification request. For example, 
> using
> 'sendfax -D'.".
> 
> So, *my* query is  . . . if submitting FAX via a FAX "printer" 
> ("clientless"
> setting") how does one do this?  Can one get notifications sent if 
> simply
> using a FAX printer?  And, of course, my most recent other post comes 
> into
> play.
> 
> Isn't there a way to make notifications a default behavior?
> 
> Signed . . . . "Sargent Schultz" ("I know, nothing.  I know nothing!", 
> for
> those old enough to recall Hogan's Hero's)
> 
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