HylaFAX or other Print-to-Fax capabilities of Linux with Windows clients?

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 13:59:00 EST 2005


 Yes, the fax number can be.. Well, blech.. ;-)
  I've been wanting too see someone try out
http://www.ifax.com/content/view/36/88/
  It actually serves as a fax service within the Microsoft Fax environment,
so things like 'Send Fax From Word', etc, would be directed thru the server
itself. Sounds very nice to be, but not open source.. :-(
  Thomas

 On 11/13/05, Dan Jenkins <dan at rastech.com> wrote:
>
> Thomas Charron wrote:
>
> > On 11/11/05, Ted Roche <tedroche at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>HylaFAX (http://www.hylafax.org) on the server, with an appropriate
> >>serial external fax modem (are US Robotics Speedsters still the gold
> >>standard?), and WinPrint HylaFAX (http://
> >>winprinthylafax.sourceforge.net/)<http://winprinthylafax.sourceforge.net/)>
> <http://winprinthylafax.sourceforge.net/)>on the desktops sounds like a
> >>killer combination. Anyone got experience (or warnings) with these?
> >>
> > HylaFAX and Samba sharing as a shared printer.
> > Works great.
> >
> How does it determine the fax number to send to? Does it still try to
> extract it from the document? The last testing I did had real problems
> recognizing the fax number in the documents. The formatting needed was
> too strict for my clients' needs then. Also, does anyone know a hylafax
> solution wherein Windows and/or Mac clients can use an addressbook for
> the fax numbers?
>
> --
> Dan Jenkins (dan at rastech.com)
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