sending faxes

[terpic]

Can anyone let me know if it is possible to send a fax of a document directly from open office writer and if so how? I do not want to receive faxes. Or if there is a programme in linux for handling outgoing faxes.

Thanks

[elderdays]

Go to freshmeat and type in "fax". Have you looked at Hylafax?

[terpic]

Thanks for that I now have it installed but has anyone any idea how to configure the fax setup?

[elderdays]

I've not actually set up hylafax before, but I was going to at one time for a friend and the how-to on their site looked pretty dang good. They ended up getting a laser fax thing, so I never actually went through with it but if I remember there is a configure script that runs and asks you questions and it makes the config files.

[terpic]

I have tried to configure using Yast inputted the correct phone numbers, I think, and the script /usr/bin/capisuitefax -d %number %files
when I try to send a fax through Kprint and cups selecting print to fax, I get the error message "can't write to queue dir"

what am I doing wrong?

[asklepios]

did you set your Fax printer to "accept jobs"?

[elderdays]

Oooo, not sure about this since I haven't used Suse in a long time. But, it does sound like a permissions problem. Try and find out where the queue is. It'll most likely be in something like /var/spool. See what permissions are on the queue file. Also, check in any config files in /etc that are related and see if there is anything in there that allows you to set who has permissions to fax.

Someone who's used hylafax or capisuitefax please pipe in here or I'll run out of ideas.

[terpic]

The fax printer says Idle (accepting print jobs ) in the print dialogue box.
I have got rid of hylafax and am now trying to use send fax. when I open the print to fax dialogue box and send to fax, nothing happens no error messages except in the status bar at the bottom left the words sending fax appear briefly.
I have looked in the log and it says: sending to fax using :/usr/X11R6/bin/fax Name='me' DEV=modem followwed by the correct phone numbers etc.

has anyone any ideas where I can go from here. Thanks.

[elderdays]

What log are you looking in?

[terpic]

what I am doing is from a open office writer document, going to file - print, then I get a print dialogue box set to kprinter, I select OK and get another dialogue box, "print - kprinter", where I select, send to fax and OK, this brings up another box called "send to fax - kdeprint fax" from there I type in the phone number and select the send icon. In the menu bar at the top is an icon view log, this is the one I am looking at.

Is that any help?

[elderdays]

Well, I'm stumped. Somebody who's done this chime in please. I'd say try to see what's in /var/spool and try some different configurations of the permissions on whatever you see there that is relevant. It should stand out if that's where its going, which is highly likely.