On the subject of fax software, does anyone know of any that will work over the Internet (i.e. I send my fax like email to a server for it to be sent out)... Just want to avoid ANOTHER phone line... => On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:31:29PM +1100 or thereabouts, => John Blue wrote: => > KDE desktop. I would prefer integrated => sending/receiving/viewing. I => > have been looking at various packages, including Hylafax but from => > what I have seen so far it is perhaps "too heavy" for my needs?? => => Gooday John, => => What is "too heavy" about Hylafax. It can be used as a => single client or for your entire network. SuSE has a nice => GUI interface for it, making it very easy to use. I prefer => the quick command line. I have used Hylafax for 1000s of => faxes over several distros, and versions. It has worked => flawlessly. It will read both postscript and PDF files to => fax. Can also be used with SAMBA for your windows clients. => This same functionality for a windows based fax server, I => have seen advertised for $1200 US for windows.. it is => *free* in Linux. You cannot go wrong with Hylafax in my => opinion, either as a single client or network server application.

I'm using Suse 8.1 and now I would to connect a Okipage Laser Printer model 14e shared on a Windows XP Pro PC to my Suse Workstation. I set the yast wizard to share a network printer, then I select SMB protocol, but I don't see the printer. Have anyone the same problem? Kalos

Hi Zentara,

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:31:29 +1100 "John Blue" wrote:

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I am using SuSE V* with KDE 3.0.5 and Samba installed on a small network. Presently I use a windoze package for faxing via a serial port Fax/voice/modem, however this is single user and only available from the windoze NT pc. This modem is separate to my internet connection which is via ADSL broadband.

I am still finding my way around Linux so am not looking for a complex solution. However I would appreciate suggestions on which software may be suitable for faxing from my small network using the KDE desktop. I would prefer integrated sending/receiving/viewing. I have been looking at various packages, including Hylafax but from what I have seen so far it is perhaps "too heavy" for my needs??

All suggestions appreciated.

Yeah, there have been a couple of new releases announced on freshmeat.net for lightweight faxing solutions. One is xfax and the other is efax. Go to http://freshmeat.net and search for fax.

Thanks for the suggestion, I am a number of package suggestions that I am now looking at.

-- Best wishes, John

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Hi Dries,

John Blue wrote :

| have been looking at various packages, including Hylafax but from | what I have seen so far it is perhaps "too heavy" for my needs?? |

I use 'efax', it's a simple commandline tool for faxing, it can be used as a sort of printer driver but i don't really know how to do that, i only use it from my own software (if a server somewhere has got a problem, we get a fax). It's quite easy to use efax and it can use faxclass 1 modems (some option tweaking might be required).

Thanks for that information, I have a few suggestions that I am now looking at. Best wishes, John

Grtz Dries Pruimboom

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