Re: faxing from Win 95
On Thu, Aug 14, 1997 at 06:19:44PM -0500, Rob MacWilliams wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
> >
> > > > I want to be able to fax from my Windows 95 desktop, ideally via the
> > > > default exchange client, but via a print driver would be OK.
> > >
> > > From what little I've seen and read you should be able to do it with
> > > Samba. I believe theres a file in the document directory (somewhere)
> > > called something like win-fax which details the basics of this.
> >
> > There is a freeware or shareware thingy made by a german company that
> > provides a win95 client program ala Microsoft's fax send dialog that is
> > intended to work with a linux samba server. I have downloaded it a while
> > ago, but haven't had the time to actually install and try it, but I sure
> > plan to do so.
> >
> > I can't remember the exact name and url, but if you do a search on
> > altavista for
> > +linux +samba +fax windows95 faxdriver
> > you'll probably find it easily.
>
> Is it called Stomper? If so, it's pretty much a DOS /win '95/NT program. We use it at work, and it's
> OK unless the modem can't connect, then you have to reboot both machines, yech.
No, stomper is a modem sharing program.
There is a solution for Samba, which involves a script on the server,
a faked samba printer which prints to this script, and a program
running on the Windows machine to ask for the phone number etc.
It works ok.
Hamish
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