freebsd network fax server?

[Daniel Marsh]

On 5/27/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
>
> The problem with the printserver routine is you have no way to
> specify the recipient fax number.  Emailing the fax to the hylafax
> server is the way to go.
>
> Ted
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dave
> > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 9:32 AM
> > To: apatewna at yahoo.gr; Anish Mistry
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: freebsd network fax server?
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >     I do have windows clients, and i do not have any fax client
> > software for
> > them. I thought i could just go through a cups printserver that
> > i've got but
> > haven't seen anything to get that going. I am open to suggestions.
> > Thanks.
> > Dave.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Thanos Rizoulis" <apatewna at yahoo.gr>
> > To: "Anish Mistry" <amistry at am-productions.biz>
> > Cc: "Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com>; <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 11:39 AM
> > Subject: Re: freebsd network fax server?
> >
> >
> > > O/H Anish Mistry Ýãñáøå:
> > >> On Thursday 24 May 2007, Dave wrote:
> > >>> Hello,
> > >> I've got a setup using HylaFAX.
> > >
> > > The critical parts of the question about Hylafax are:
> > > a) are you using hylafax server with windows clients? and if yes
> > > b) what cliesnt software are you using to send faxes? (there
> > are dosens of
> > > them)
> > >
> > > I am interested too in such a solution and I am stuck at what client
> to
> > > select for windows based machines.
> > >
> > > --
> > > RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens
> > > _________________________________________
> > > Thanos Rizoulis
> > > Electronic Computing Systems Engineer
> > > Larissa, Greece
> > > FreeBSD/PCBSD user
> > > _______________________________________________
>

I currently use Hylafax on a FreeBSD server to send and receive faxes, when
receiving it sends it to a different person specified on the fax number they
received it on.
To send faxes I've tried several different solutions, one was a printer
shared via samba/cups (smbfax) this would look in the produced postscript
for a line "Fax-nr: 993848210" and send the fax to that number, this is
great if you use fax coversheets in word, another as an e-mail receiver, but
the most successful I've tried is installing a driver on each machine
separately that prompts you for a fax number and allows you to save an
address book when sending faxes (winprint hylafax).

Regardless of my experience with these, the best place to find software that
you could make use of as a client is listed at:
http://www.hylafax.org/content/Desktop_Client_Software

I have found the hylafax handbook on par with the FreeBSD handbook with
clarity, readability and a bloody excellent source of information on how to
implement servers and clients.

Thanks
Daniel