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-<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 5. Features</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-errors.html" title="Chapter 4. Common errors"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 5. Features</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-errors.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> </td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="FAQ-features"></a>Chapter 5. Features</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2816162">How can I use samba as a fax server?</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2816214">Tools for printing faxes</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2816267">Making the fax-server</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2882870">Installing the client drivers</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2882954">Example smb.conf</a></dt></dl></dd><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2882979">Samba doesn't work well together with DHCP!</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2883105">How can I assign NetBIOS names to clients with DHCP?</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2883153">How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-features.html#id2883182">Does samba have wins replication support?</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2816162"></a>How can I use samba as a fax server?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>Contributor: <a href="mailto:zuber@berlin.snafu.de" target="_top">Gerhard Zuber</a></p><p>Requirements:
-</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>UNIX box (Linux preferred) with SAMBA and a faxmodem</td></tr><tr><td>ghostscript package</td></tr><tr><td>mgetty+sendfax package</td></tr><tr><td>pbm package (portable bitmap tools)</td></tr></table><p>
-</p><p>First, install and configure the required packages. Be sure to read the mgetty+sendfax
-manual carefully.</p><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2816214"></a>Tools for printing faxes</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>Your incomed faxes are in:
-<tt class="filename">/var/spool/fax/incoming</tt>. Print it with:</p><pre class="programlisting">
-for i in *
-do
-g3cat $i | g3tolj | lpr -P hp
-done
-</pre><p>
-</p><p>
-g3cat is in the tools-section, g3tolj is in the contrib-section
-for printing to HP lasers.
-</p><p>
-If you want to produce files for displaying and printing with Windows, use
-some tools from the pbm-package like the following command: <b class="command">g3cat $i | g3topbm - | ppmtopcx - &gt;$i.pcx</b>
-and view it with your favourite Windows tool (maybe paintbrush)
-</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2816267"></a>Making the fax-server</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>fetch the file <tt class="filename">mgetty+sendfax/frontends/winword/faxfilter</tt> and place it in <tt class="filename">/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/</tt>(replace /usr/local/ with whatever place you installed mgetty+sendfax)</p><p>prepare your faxspool file as mentioned in this file
-edit fax/faxspool.in and reinstall or change the final
-/usr/local/bin/faxspool too.
-</p><pre class="programlisting">
-if [ "$user" = "root" -o "$user" = "fax" -o \
- "$user" = "lp" -o "$user" = "daemon" -o "$user" = "bin" ]
-</pre><p>find the first line and change it to the second.</p><p>
-make sure you have pbmtext (from the pbm-package). This is
-needed for creating the small header line on each page.
-</p><p>Prepare your faxheader <tt class="filename">/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/faxheader</tt></p><p>
-Edit your /etc/printcap file:
-</p><pre class="programlisting">
-# FAX
-lp3|fax:\
- :lp=/dev/null:\
- :sd=/usr/spool/lp3:\
- :if=/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/faxfilter:sh:sf:mx#0:\
- :lf=/usr/spool/lp3/fax-log:
-</pre><p>Now, edit your <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> so you have a smb based printer named "fax"</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2882870"></a>Installing the client drivers</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>
-Now you have a printer called "fax" which can be used via
-TCP/IP-printing (lpd-system) or via SAMBA (windows printing).
-</p><p>
-On every system you are able to produce postscript-files you
-are ready to fax.
-</p><p>
-On Windows 3.1 95 and NT:
-</p><p>
-Install a printer wich produces postscript output,
- e.g. apple laserwriter
-</p><p>Connect the "fax" to your printer.</p><p>
-Now write your first fax. Use your favourite wordprocessor,
-write, winword, notepad or whatever you want, and start
-with the headerpage.
-</p><p>
-Usually each fax has a header page. It carries your name,
-your address, your phone/fax-number.
-</p><p>
-It carries also the recipient, his address and his *** fax
-number ***. Now here is the trick:
-</p><p>
-Use the text:
-</p><pre class="programlisting">
-Fax-Nr: 123456789
-</pre><p>
-as the recipients fax-number. Make sure this text does not
-occur in regular text ! Make sure this text is not broken
-by formatting information, e.g. format it as a single entity.
-(Windows Write and Win95 Wordpad are functional, maybe newer
- versions of Winword are breaking formatting information).
-</p><p>
-The trick is that postscript output is human readable and
-the faxfilter program scans the text for this pattern and
-uses the found number as the fax-destination-number.
-</p><p>
-Now print your fax through the fax-printer and it will be
-queued for later transmission. Use faxrunq for sending the
-queue out.
-</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2882954"></a>Example smb.conf</h3></div></div><div></div></div><pre class="programlisting">
-[global]
- printcap name = /etc/printcap
- print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -P %p %s
- lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P %p
- lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -P %p %j
-
-[fax]
- comment = FAX (mgetty+sendfax)
- path = /tmp
- printable = yes
- public = yes
- writable = no
- create mode = 0700
- browseable = yes
- guest ok = no
-</pre></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2882979"></a>Samba doesn't work well together with DHCP!</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
-We wish to help those folks who wish to use the ISC DHCP Server and provide
-sample configuration settings. Most operating systems today come ship with
-the ISC DHCP Server. ISC DHCP is available from:
-<a href="ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp" target="_top">ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp</a>
-</p><p>
-Incorrect configuration of MS Windows clients (Windows9X, Windows ME, Windows
-NT/2000) will lead to problems with browsing and with general network
-operation. Windows 9X/ME users often report problems where the TCP/IP and related
-network settings will inadvertantly become reset at machine start-up resulting
-in loss of configuration settings. This results in increased maintenance
-overheads as well as serious user frustration.
-</p><p>
-In recent times users on one mailing list incorrectly attributed the cause of
-network operating problems to incorrect configuration of Samba.
-</p><p>
-One user insisted that the only way to provent Windows95 from periodically
-performing a full system reset and hardware detection process on start-up was
-to install the NetBEUI protocol in addition to TCP/IP. This assertion is not
-correct.
-</p><p>
-In the first place, there is NO need for NetBEUI. All Microsoft Windows clients
-natively run NetBIOS over TCP/IP, and that is the only protocol that is
-recognised by Samba. Installation of NetBEUI and/or NetBIOS over IPX will
-cause problems with browse list operation on most networks. Even Windows NT
-networks experience these problems when incorrectly configured Windows95
-systems share the same name space. It is important that only those protocols
-that are strictly needed for site specific reasons should EVER be installed.
-</p><p>
-Secondly, and totally against common opinion, DHCP is NOT an evil design but is
-an extension of the BOOTP protocol that has been in use in Unix environments
-for many years without any of the melt-down problems that some sensationalists
-would have us believe can be experienced with DHCP. In fact, DHCP in covered by
-rfc1541 and is a very safe method of keeping an MS Windows desktop environment
-under control and for ensuring stable network operation.
-</p><p>
-Please note that MS Windows systems as of MS Windows NT 3.1 and MS Windows 95
-store all network configuration settings a registry. There are a few reports
-from MS Windows network administrators that warrant mention here. It would appear
-that when one sets certain MS TCP/IP protocol settings (either directly or via
-DHCP) that these do get written to the registry. Even though a subsequent
-change of setting may occur the old value may persist in the registry. This
-has been known to create serious networking problems.
-</p><p>
-An example of this occurs when a manual TCP/IP environment is configured to
-include a NetBIOS Scope. In this event, when the administrator then changes the
-configuration of the MS TCP/IP protocol stack, without first deleting the
-current settings, by simply checking the box to configure the MS TCP/IP stack
-via DHCP then the NetBIOS Scope that is still persistent in the registry WILL be
-applied to the resulting DHCP offered settings UNLESS the DHCP server also sets
-a NetBIOS Scope. It may therefore be prudent to forcibly apply a NULL NetBIOS
-Scope from your DHCP server. The can be done in the dhcpd.conf file with the
-parameter:
-<b class="command">option netbios-scope "";</b>
-</p><p>
-While it is true that the Microsoft DHCP server that comes with Windows NT
-Server provides only a sub-set of rfc1533 functionality this is hardly an issue
-in those sites that already have a large investment and commitment to Unix
-systems and technologies. The current state of the art of the DHCP Server
-specification in covered in rfc2132.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2883105"></a>How can I assign NetBIOS names to clients with DHCP?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
-SMB network clients need to be configured so that all standard TCP/IP name to
-address resolution works correctly. Once this has been achieved the SMB
-environment provides additional tools and services that act as helper agents in
-the translation of SMB (NetBIOS) names to their appropriate IP Addresses. One
-such helper agent is the NetBIOS Name Server (NBNS) or as Microsoft called it
-in their Windows NT Server implementation WINS (Windows Internet Name Server).
-</p><p>
-A client needs to be configured so that it has a unique Machine (Computer)
-Name.
-</p><p>
-This can be done, but needs a few NT registry hacks and you need to be able to
-speak UNICODE, which is of course no problem for a True Wizzard(tm) :)
-Instructions on how to do this (including a small util for less capable
-Wizzards) can be found at
-</p><p><a href="http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html" target="_top">http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html</a></p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2883153"></a>How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
-Jim barry has written an <a href="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/contributed/fixcrlf.zip" target="_top">
-excellent drag-and-drop cr/lf converter for
-windows</a>. Just drag your file onto the icon and it converts the file.
-</p><p>
-The utilities unix2dos and dos2unix(in the mtools package) should do
-the job under unix.
-</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2883182"></a>Does samba have wins replication support?</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
-At the time of writing there is currently being worked on a wins replication implementation(wrepld).
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