Fax from Windows

[Joachim Feise]

Mark Symonds wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO" <ruben at mrbrklyn.com>
> To: <suse-linux-e at suse.com>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 7:05 AM
> Subject: Fax from Windows
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > Does anyone have experience setting up Windows so that it can fax to a fax
> > server on Linux.  I've tried setting up efax on the LP port and making it
> > available under SMB but this didn't work.  GThere is no windows client
> > which will let you put the phone number anywher ;)  Something I should have
> > though of prior.
> >
> 
> This is exactly what I have been recently working on for a customer.
> The samba docs do contain some quick docs in English on how to
> do this with mgetty+sendfax but unfortunately it wasn't working over
> here and the comments in the script are German.

Done that with mgetty+sendfax and the Respond program mentioned earlier in
the thread (of course, it helps that I know German ;-)

> 
> So I started from scratch using some of the same ideas but using
> efax and perl instead.
> 
> The trick is that you install a postscript printer (e.g. Apple Laserwriter)
> on the windows machines and point it to the samba server.  Since
> postscript is plain text you can parse it for the phone number and then
> pass that off to efax (efax then automatically converts your postscript
> document to fax format and sends it off.)

The only problem I have with this kind of solution is that it requires
you to have the fax number in the document in a certain format.
Respond does away with this requirement.
I have to admit, though, that the UI of the Respond program looks a bit
home grown. But it works fine.

-Joe