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#Install spiceworks on centos install#
#Install spiceworks on centos serial#
#Install spiceworks on centos drivers#
#Install spiceworks on centos software#

#Install spiceworks on centos software#

It really became a viable tool in college when we first started setting up mini work environments to work with our various software packages. I first started using VMware sever at home, more fiddling around with new software than using it. It has helped me get much more out of my hardware and given me the ability set up test environments in a matter of minutes. Using this method, as a fax is received it can be e-mailed right away without the user constantly having to check the share.Īfter using VMware for 3 years, it’s hard to imagine life about it.

Click on OK and minimize the program to finish configuration.

Click on the “File Types” tab and click on the “Customize…” button.

Click on View -> Options and check the following.

Click on Folder -> Add and select your mapped drive letter.

FAM will display a popup whenever a file is created (AKA a fax being received).

To be alerted when a fax is received, we need to first mount the fax share in windows (I used t:\) and download/install File Alert Monitor.

Restart the server and you can browse to the IP address of the server and to the faxes share ( //ip_address/faxes).

Again using vi edit the /etc/inittab file, adding the line: mo:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0.

Save the smb.conf file by pressing ESC and then typing : x and pressing enter.

Under the “ Share Definitions” create a share similar to the following.

Once in vi, you will want to edit the following lines (by first pressing i) Do this by typing vi /etc/samba/smb.conf. Next we want to edit the samba config file to create a share for our faxes.

Hylafax should now be set up to receive faxes.

this will take up to 5 minutes, so just be patient. after a while it will get into probing the modem for a host speed.

#Install spiceworks on centos serial#

When you get top the point where it asks what serial port your modem is on, use ttyS0. Use most of the defaults and input the pertinent data (area code, etc.).Once Hylafax is finished installing run /usr/sbin/faxsetup to configure Hylafax and your modem.

#Install spiceworks on centos install#

Now to install Hylafax by typing rpm -Uvh hylafax*.rpm.

Once connected to the correct share, copy the file by typing get hylafax-4.4. then disconnect by typing exit.

Now copy the Hylafax install that was previously downloaded from the website by typing smbclient \\fileserver\share -U username.

Install CentOS4 with the following packages.

Download the latest Hylafax build for RedHat from and save it on a network share.

Choose the port on the host that the modem is using (in my case COM2).

Choose “ Use physical serial port on the host“.

Click on “ Edit Virtual Machine Settings” and then “ Add…“.

#Install spiceworks on centos drivers#

This has its advantages as it doesn’t really require the full resources of a server to run, and by using a VM, you can use any modem windows can support compared to hunting down drivers for Linux. This article is a guide on How-To install a Hylafax server in VMware. I decided to tweak this to a samba share that everyone would have access too (this way if the person that received faxes was off sick we could still check our incoming faxes). Hylafax itself has the ability to receive faxes and e-mail them directly to a user. Keeping with my open source theme, I decided to use a little application I found called Hylafax. This of course has many advantages, from saving trees to people getting their faxes quicker.

One of the tasks that was mentioned to me when I first started this job was to find a way to convert our received faxes to e-mail.