Win98 Fax Server and Win XP Pro Clients

I have an old Win98 box that is used to do various tasks like SNTP server, dyn
ip updater etc..

One of the tasks I want it to handle is network fax too.

I can get this setup to work on the Win98 Boxen to add the network fax server, I
can not seem to get the WinXP client to let me add the network fax server to use
that versus a fax modem in the WinXP box. The WinXP box has no modem what so
ever.

WinXP seems to want a Fax Printer of some sort, and under the Devices Tab there
is no option to "add device" like the Win98 client have. The "Add Printer"
option for a network printer doesn't like the \\server\FAX for a printer.

Any one done this and if so how?

Thanks!



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Generally, a fax/modem cannot be shared over a network as a shared printer
as the fax service needs to be running on the sending PC. There are devices
that can do so but they aren't modems and they aren't cheap.

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>I have an old Win98 box that is used to do various tasks like SNTP server,
>dyn
> ip updater etc..
>
> One of the tasks I want it to handle is network fax too.
>
> I can get this setup to work on the Win98 Boxen to add the network fax
> server, I
> can not seem to get the WinXP client to let me add the network fax server
> to use
> that versus a fax modem in the WinXP box. The WinXP box has no modem what
> so
> ever.
>
> WinXP seems to want a Fax Printer of some sort, and under the Devices Tab
> there
> is no option to "add device" like the Win98 client have. The "Add Printer"
> option for a network printer doesn't like the \\server\FAX for a printer.
>
> Any one done this and if so how?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:29:49 -0500, "Richard G. Harper" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Generally, a fax/modem cannot be shared over a network as a shared printer
>as the fax service needs to be running on the sending PC. There are devices
>that can do so but they aren't modems and they aren't cheap.

Yes, you can go this route. But Win98 quite nicely shared and still does share
my plain old 14.4K fax modem with all the Win98 boxes on my network. All
included free with the OS. Nice simple check box to "Share this fax to the
network."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/141292/EN-US/

I need to find a way for the new WinXP Fax Client to work with this Win98 Fax
server. The WinXP client is looking for a "fax printer" and from 2 days of
searching it appears that XP and the old 95/98 Exchange Server are not
compatible.

So if some one has a glue program to fix this or knows a secret way to get XP
to work with the old 95/98 Exchange Fax Server please advise.



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