Topic: hylafax client

[Del]

Hi All,
I have followed Darrell May's Hylafax Howto, everything seemed to go well, my modem was found etc. I am having trouble setting up the whfc client, does any one know of a Howto for this? I can't get it to send a fax. Is there a way I can send a fax direct from SME to check that it is working OK? I did a search on Google for hylafax clients and came across smbfax, has anyone tried to install this? Also if I set the "Rings to wait before answering" to 0 will it not answer incoming calls? I need it to send only at the moment. The modem is a Hayes Accura Class 1.
Any help is always greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Del

[Ed Form]

Del wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I have followed Darrell May's Hylafax Howto, everything
> seemed to go well, my modem was found etc. I am having
> trouble setting up the whfc client, does any one know of a
> Howto for this? I can't get it to send a fax. Is there a way
> I can send a fax direct from SME to check that it is working
> OK? I did a search on Google for hylafax clients and came
> across smbfax, has anyone tried to install this? Also if I
> set the "Rings to wait before answering" to 0 will it not
> answer incoming calls? I need it to send only at the moment.
> The modem is a Hayes Accura Class 1.
> Any help is always greatly appreciated.

If you mail me off forum I'll send you a 1.33MB zipfile which contains what you need to get all this to fly - there's a comprehensive howto, a copy of WHFC and of Tiffview plus template fragments and an rc.local file to make it all start when the server is booted. There's also a config.ttyS0 file that gets round the dropped scanline problem that Accuras are prone to.

I'll see about putting it up on contribs.org as well for anyone else who needs it.

Ed Form

[del]

Thanks Ed, email sent.
Del

[Lloyd Keen]

To test faxing from the server, create a test document called test:
#mcedit test
containing some text
save it, then do
#sendfax -n -d test