----- Original Message ----- From: "Arie Reynaldi Z" To: Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Fax server

======= And there is even Hylafax tutorial in Indonesian :-)

Based on my experience, it would be not as easy just like WinFax setup but please keep in mind that it is not as difficult just like another complicated software. Setting up wireless LAN with unknown chipset in OpenSUSE seems to be more difficult :-)

I've a simple installation tutorial about hylafax. It was written on Indonesian version, http://www.vavai.com/index.php?/archives/56-Fax-Melalui-Komputer-Menggunakan-HylaFax-OpenSuSE-10.2.html&serendipity[entrypage]=all ======

Ah.. Vavai.. Thanks for the info, I'll chek it as soon as possible. Right now I still have to deal with my boss who insist using winfax.. :( how can I convince him so we can use hylafax instead..

1) I would use vsi-fax before winfax even on windows. www.esker.com They have both windows and linux versions of the server, and the windows client integration is about the same either way, so I would say running the linux server would make the most reliable system all-around, but thats only because I and the entire rest of my office is comfortable administering linux boxes. Otherwise you'd be safer actually using the windows version. Your boss has to think like this, and so should you: "when this thing farts, how do I fix it _immediately_?" If you have people on staff who can install a new fax server from scratch, then it's ok to use that system. If you have a local computer guy you can call who can do the same, that's good enough too. But setting some special system that no one knows how to administer or fix or re-create from scratch, that's not good. I have lots of customers with vsi-fax on their own application servers, as well as my own dedicated fax servers (sco unix, linux, windows) and it just chugs away for years without babysitting. The windows versions had more problems than unix or linux only because the windows servers they ran on had more problems. So if you have a windows server thats well cared for, it's solid. 2) There is a commercially supported version of hylafax to make it all easy and safe. www.ifax.com I have used them occasionally to help set up T1 fax boards but I am only using linux so I don't know what windows integration options they have. I'd just ask them. They were very knowledgeable and helpful. I can say that we currently use hylafax servers (self-built and self-configured, not by ifax) that see lots heavy traffic all day every day from multiple remote linux clients, and I never have to touch those boxes. They just chug away all year. I actually have to look up their passwords the once or twice a year I need to do something on them. vsi-fax has a mountain of features that hylafax doesn't have. You can get very fancy with integration. There are internet based fax services now too like efax which I have mostly not used, but you might want to look into them too. The advantages being you don't need your own pots lines and you aren't limited to the number of faxes per day that a modem on a pots line can keep up with and you don't have any fax server to worry about and you can have users outside your office working from remote offices and from home and while travelling. -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org