🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 07 May 1997 07:04:14 GMT,
woody@{spam.bites}.daemon.apana.org.au (Terry Wood) wrote:

>On 07 May 1997 13:46:01 +0930, Chris Saunderson
><saundo@schroedinger.adelaide.maptek.com.au> wrote:
>
>>pkdoc1@mugc.cc.monash.edu.au (Phillip Dockley) writes:
>>> Terry do have any idea of how to set up a fax server under linux that
>>> would be used by windows clients !!!
>>
>>You'll be wanting to look into SAMBA, me lad.
>
>>It can be done, I've seen the docs on it.
>
>Yeah i would agree, ive got samba running from my linux box to my
>win95 machine and thats what i am using aswell.
>
>mgetty receives the fax and i use g3topbm to convert it into a pbm
>bitmap, which then via the use of samba i can read straight into LView
>Pro (or anything else that can load a pbm) from explorer and print it
>from there.  I find that i have to resize the pbm to 864 x 1165 pixels
>and also invert the colors and then it prints out just like a normal
>fax on my little bubble jet.. 
>
>I know its not as nice as actually HAVING a fax machine and i have to
>muck around a little but hey, its cost me nothing to setup as ive
>allready got the modem sitting there as a personal dialup (so its not
>usually busy) and i only want it for that odd time im asked 'do you
>have a fax, we can send it to you' and now i can say 'yep' :)... Suits
>me 100%.
>
>Would be nice to automate the process of conversion so that all i have
>to do is print, but such is life.. Ill go look at the samba docs some
>more aswell now :)...
>
>

What i was actually after is the reverse option be able to send !!!

any ideas or has anyone got something running that they could explain
how it was setup ?


>Catch ya,
>          Woody   <woody@netspace.net.au>
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>Terry J. Wood,
>Located at Traralgon, Gippsland
>Country Victoria, Australia