On Wednesday 29 December 2004 01:20, Louis Richards wrote:
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 10:07, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Have installed and run hylafax. Seemed easier as it looked. Two problems which I have to solve.
Do the following as root from a console or terminal.
# faxaddmodem
Also in the "/var/spool/fax/etc" directory is a file named "hosts.hfaxd". This file controls what other users and PCs can access the fax server. You are so close now ... why not go for a full blown networked fax server ;-)
# man hosts.hfaxd
The above command will bring up the man page for the file and it has examples near the end of it. You can ignore this part if you are not networked or just want to send faxes from the one PC.
When finished, restart hylafax with ...
# rchylafax restart
Let me know if this works out for you.
Dear Louis, That was clear and and in plain English. Have changed rings to wait before answering to 0 but the modem responded right away with any incoming calls. Changed it to 12 which also did not change anything so I can still not receive telephone calls ;-( During the faxaddmodem the test of the speed was not successful resulting in three times following info: .............................. Probing for best speed to talk to modem: 38400 OK. There was no response from the modem. Perhaps the modem is turned off or the cable between the modem and host is not connected. Please check the modem and hit a carriage return when you are ready to try again: ............................... And somewhere during the setup session I got following info: ............................... Warning, the dial string rules file, /var/spool/fax/y does not exist, or is not a plain file. This file must reside in the /var/spool/fax directory tree. ............................... Should I make this file handmade or should it have been made automagically? As to networking, that is still a work in progress ;-) I have two computers connected with a twisted cable. They can ping each other but they have never exchanged any data up to now. Main system on the other computer drdos and a small slackware linux. Still have not found a way to let the computers exchange data although that must be easy ;-(. Modem works on both machines with a modem splitter.