Chapter 5. Features

Table of Contents

How can I use samba as a fax server?

Tools for printing faxes
Making the fax-server
Installing the client drivers
Example smb.conf

Samba doesn't work well together with DHCP!

How can I assign NetBIOS names to clients with DHCP?

How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?

Does samba have wins replication support?

How can I use samba as a fax server?

Contributor: Gerhard Zuber

Requirements: -

UNIX box (Linux preferred) with SAMBA and a faxmodem

ghostscript package

mgetty+sendfax package

pbm package (portable bitmap tools)

First, install and configure the required packages. Be sure to read the mgetty+sendfax -manual carefully.

Tools for printing faxes

Your incomed faxes are in: +Chapter 5. Features

Chapter 5. Features
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Chapter 5. Features

Table of Contents

How can I use samba as a fax server?

Tools for printing faxes
Making the fax-server
Installing the client drivers
Example smb.conf

Samba doesn't work well together with DHCP!

How can I assign NetBIOS names to clients with DHCP?

How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?

Does samba have wins replication support?

How can I use samba as a fax server?

Contributor: Gerhard Zuber

Requirements: +

UNIX box (Linux preferred) with SAMBA and a faxmodem

ghostscript package

mgetty+sendfax package

pbm package (portable bitmap tools)

First, install and configure the required packages. Be sure to read the mgetty+sendfax +manual carefully.

Tools for printing faxes

Your incomed faxes are in: /var/spool/fax/incoming. Print it with:

 for i in *
 do
 g3cat $i | g3tolj | lpr -P hp
 done
-

g3cat is in the tools-section, g3tolj is in the contrib-section for printing to HP lasers.

If you want to produce files for displaying and printing with Windows, use some tools from the pbm-package like the following command: g3cat $i | g3topbm - | ppmtopcx - >$i.pcx and view it with your favourite Windows tool (maybe paintbrush) -

Making the fax-server

fetch the file mgetty+sendfax/frontends/winword/faxfilter and place it in /usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/(replace /usr/local/ with whatever place you installed mgetty+sendfax)

prepare your faxspool file as mentioned in this file +

Making the fax-server

fetch the file mgetty+sendfax/frontends/winword/faxfilter and place it in /usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/(replace /usr/local/ with whatever place you installed mgetty+sendfax)

prepare your faxspool file as mentioned in this file edit fax/faxspool.in and reinstall or change the final /usr/local/bin/faxspool too.

-if [ "$user" = "root" -o "$user" = "fax" -o \
-     "$user" = "lp" -o "$user" = "daemon" -o "$user" = "bin" ]
+if [ "$user" = "root" -o "$user" = "fax" -o \
+     "$user" = "lp" -o "$user" = "daemon" -o "$user" = "bin" ]

find the first line and change it to the second.

make sure you have pbmtext (from the pbm-package). This is needed for creating the small header line on each page. -

Prepare your faxheader /usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/faxheader

Edit your /etc/printcap file: -

 # 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:
-

Now, edit your smb.conf so you have a smb based printer named "fax"

Installing the client drivers

-Now you have a printer called "fax" which can be used via +

Now, edit your smb.conf so you have a smb based printer named "fax"

Installing the client drivers

+Now you have a printer called "fax" which can be used via TCP/IP-printing (lpd-system) or via SAMBA (windows printing).

On every system you are able to produce postscript-files you @@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ On Windows 3.1 95 and NT:

Install a printer wich produces postscript output, e.g. apple laserwriter -

Connect the "fax" to your printer.

Now write your first fax. Use your favourite wordprocessor, write, winword, notepad or whatever you want, and start with the headerpage. @@ -55,17 +54,17 @@ your address, your phone/fax-number.

It carries also the recipient, his address and his *** fax number ***. Now here is the trick: -

Use the text: -

 Fax-Nr: 123456789
-

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). -

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. @@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ uses the found number as the fax-destination-number. Now print your fax through the fax-printer and it will be queued for later transmission. Use faxrunq for sending the queue out. -

Example smb.conf

 [global]
  printcap name = /etc/printcap
  print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -P %p %s
@@ -89,7 +88,7 @@ queue out.
     create mode = 0700
     browseable = yes
     guest ok = no
-

Samba doesn't work well together with DHCP!

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: @@ -142,14 +141,14 @@ 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: -option netbios-scope ""; +option netbios-scope "";

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. -

How can I assign NetBIOS names to clients with DHCP?

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 @@ -164,13 +163,13 @@ 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 -

http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html

How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?

http://www.unixtools.org/~nneul/sw/nt/dhcp-netbios-hostname.html

How do I convert between unix and dos text formats?

Jim barry has written an excellent drag-and-drop cr/lf converter for windows. Just drag your file onto the icon and it converts the file.

The utilities unix2dos and dos2unix(in the mtools package) should do the job under unix. -

Does samba have wins replication support?

At the time of writing there is currently being worked on a wins replication implementation(wrepld).

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