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Fax Service Setup
Before installing any service, please read carefully the Overview section on this chapter.
Click on the GWSetup icon , choose the FAX
service and click the Install Services
button.
The Gate-and-Way FAX setup will be launched on a terminal window.
The HylaFAX software will be installed, then you will be required to answer to several questions:
You do
not appear to have a "fax" user in the password
file. HylaFAX needs this to work properly, add it [yes]? yes |
You will be required to choose which user has to receive fax-related mail, such as usage reports, incoming faxes and malfunction warnings. If you choose the gate-and-way user, such e-mail will be sent on the Shared Mail Folders (see "Mail Service Setup" on chapter 2) and will be visible to every user on the LAN, otherwise you can choose to send them to a specific user (for example the person responsible for the telephone switch board)
Should
an entry be added for the FaxMaster to /etc/aliases
[yes]? yes Users to receive fax-related mail [root]? gate-and-way |
Then accept all the default answers pressing ENTER, except for:
Country
Code [1]? Area Code[]? Long distance dialing prefix[1]? International dialing prefix[011]? |
Now accept the non-default scheduler parameters and answer yes when it will ask you to restart the HylaFAX server processes.
At this point HylaFAX will ask to run faxaddmodem to configure a modem. Answer yes.
Serial port that modem is connected to []? ttyS0 (if it is the first serial port - i.e. COM1 in Windows. The Windows COM2 usually is ttyS1 in RedHat Linux and so on. Other Linux distributions may have different names for serial ports) |
Then it will ask you for setting for the specific modem. You can accept the default values for most of them, changing only those referring to your company's specific information (for example the phone number, or the Local identification string: i.e. your company's name). If you want to know the meaning of every single setting you can refer to the HylaFAX documentation on the HylaFAX web site: http://www.hylafax.org .
After answering these questions, turn your modem on because HylaFAX will probe your serial port for modem's setting. A list of supported modems is present at the HylaFAX web site. http://www.hylafax.org .
If HylaFAX detects a modem with different fax capabilities, it will ask you witch one do you prefer to use (Class 1, 1.0 , 2 , 2.0, 2.1). In general it's convenient to use the greatest class supported by your modem, then HylaFAX will ask you other modem settings. You can probably accept all the default values.
If you have troubles sending/receiving faxsimiles, you can change your faxmodem's Class in a later stage, by opening a Terminal Session and running the command: faxaddmodem.
Do you
want to run faxaddmodem to configure another modem [yes]?
no [snip] Should I run faxmodem for each configured modem [yes]? yes |
All done !. Installation of HylaFAX has been
completed. Your Linux server can now send and receive faxes. To
enable the clients you can use the Gate-and-Way Control Panel
(GWCP), as shown in chapter 3 on this manual.
In the client PC you have to install an HylaFAX client software,
as shown in chapter 4 on this manual.
Last updated on 3 May 2004