has anyone setup a Ubuntu Fax Server.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
has anyone setup a Ubuntu Fax Server.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
To setup a fax server you need to install hylafax, it is available in the repositories. There is a howto here:
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~piavka/hylafax-howto/
Be sure you have a modem that is supported by linux.
Jim
ok thanks I will try this. I have an 2 older external fax/modems that I use to use in the old BBS days. Yes they still work. My Hayes is 14400 and my GVC is 28.8k. I will just connect one of them to the serial port and see if it gets recognized.
The idea is to be able to receive faxes (usually 8.5 x 14 legal) size and have the fax server email them to myself where I can open and print on my laser printer. It's hard to find a SOHO affordable fax machine that will support 8.5 x 14 legal size incoming faxes.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Cheers,
just tried to install it, but it does not seem to. I found this site with distros already prepared:
http://people.ifax.com/~aidan/apt/dists/
it seems that there exists precompiled versions for all Ubuntu except Hardy Heron 8.04 that I am running. Do I need to scale back a version or just install on a newer machine with feisty fawn or other.
any suggestions?
Not sure what you have tried so far but I just installed the server yesterday. Provided your modem is compatible with Linux then you can install hylafax from the repositories:
After which you will need to configure hylafax using faxsetup script.Code:#sudo apt-get install hylafax-server
The faxsetup should prompt you to run faxaddmodem and take you through the setup but if it doesn't run faxaddmodem from the command line and it will help you configure it.Code:#sudo faxsetup
Once completed restart hylafax and you should be able to send and receive faxes.
I haven't configured it to redirect mail but that should get you started. There is plenty of documentation at the hylafax site that will help you do what you are asking http://www.hylafax.org/content/DocumentationCode:#sudo /etc/init.d/hylafax stop #sudo /etc/init.d/hylafax start
Hope that helps
Check out:
http://www.aboutdebian.com/fax.htm
To chat with your modem on /dev/ttyS0, use cu or minicom, e.g.,
It should say connected. To see which classes your modem supports, typeCode:cu -l /dev/ttyS0
Then enterCode:at+fclass=?
To exit cu, type "~~." then enter
This link may be help you:
http://www.howtoforge.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41911
Good luck!!!
cu -l /dev/ttyACM0
when running the above I get
cu: open (/dev/ttyACM0): Permission denied
cu: ttyACM0: Line in use
I have even logged in as superuser under karmic
Any suggestions?
Have you listed yourself as a modem user? Also you may need to set up PPP. Dialup networking on Ubuntu is not user friendly as it is on Puppy Linux for instance. That being said I set up dialup on many different variations of Ubuntu , never a fax though. I have some notes somewhere on the subject if you still have trouble. Another solution is to use on online fax service, they work quite well in my opinion.You might try setting up gnome-ppp from the local depositories and confiqure ppp just to see if you have the permissions correctly set.If faxing
with Ubuntu Puppy has a .pet {click to install} file for efax here: http://www.puppylinuxfaq.org/how-to9...re/pet/106.htm Puppy is a nobrainer to setup for dialup and it flies on 256mb of ram and is fast on 128mb even on an ancient P3. You can also run it off a flashdrive as the laptop I am using now has no HDD. I love Ubuntu on my desktop with 2 gigs of ram but it will not run well on my lappie rd
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