samba - May 2003 - Sambafax - which windows PS driver works? & other options?

Hi All,
I have a nicely working samba/cups print server working and have sambafax
http://www.purpel3.com/sambafax/ installed and working to a certain extent.

The problem i have is that no matter what post script driver I use on the
windows end, the ps2ascii line in the sambafax cups backend scripts seems to
not be able to change back to the original readable text and thus fails
parse the Fax-Nr: xxxxxxx line.

Does anyone have a working sambafax server and know what driver I should be
using and if this sambafax is as good as it seems?  or is there something
better than this?

are there any other options for a fax backend for CUPS?  i've managed to get
Cypheus or WHFC working on a different test machine, but don't want to
install this client software on every machine that wants to fax, not to
mention try to explain to each user how to use it.

Thanks and regards
Matthew

All I do with the pstotext program is to convert postscript files to text
for my own uses. I don't convert postscript files from window printers
to text.

When I need to send postscript files to my print server from windows
clients, I use the HP laserjet III + driver.


Joel

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:52:10AM +0930, Matthew Western
wrote:
> ah, i did notice that in the man page.    i've followed it through and
can
> see that the ps2ascii fails to render back to the original text (notepad in
> winblows).  i've commented out the bottom line of sambafax script and
then
> manually do the ps2ascii and see that it doensnt' work.
> 
> thanks for the tip.  what driver do you use on the windows client end? 
just
> the adobe ps driver or something else?  and do you have the PS driver using
> EPS or not?
> 
> :)
> 
> M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel@HammersHome.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:34 AM
> To: Matthew Western; linux-users@linux-sxs.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Sambafax - which windows PS driver works? & other
> options?
> 
> 
> I am not quite sure of the error you are experiencing, but I used to
> use ps2ascii but switched a long time ago to pstotext. I was happier
> with pstotext.
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
>  On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:11:52AM +0930, Matthew Western wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I have a nicely working samba/cups print server working and have
sambafax
> > http://www.purpel3.com/sambafax/ installed and working to a certain
> extent.
> >
> > The problem i have is that no matter what post script driver I use on
the
> > windows end, the ps2ascii line in the sambafax cups backend scripts
seems
> to
> > not be able to change back to the original readable text and thus
fails
> > parse the Fax-Nr: xxxxxxx line.
> >
> > Does anyone have a working sambafax server and know what driver I
should
> be
> > using and if this sambafax is as good as it seems?  or is there
something
> > better than this?
> >
> > are there any other options for a fax backend for CUPS?  i've
managed to
> get
> > Cypheus or WHFC working on a different test machine, but don't
want to
> > install this client software on every machine that wants to fax, not
to
> > mention try to explain to each user how to use it.
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> > Matthew
> >
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