[Freeswitch-users] FAX problems

[Steven Schoch]

My whole plan here is to replace the phone system currently in the office
(a NexPath system, a really nice PC-chassis pbx system from the 1990's) to
a more modern VoIP system, and git rid of all our POTS lines.  But I need a
simple solution for the users who send FAXes from their Windows systems.

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Dave R. Kompel <drk at drkngs.net> wrote:

> **
> It seems that you may be debugging way too many things at once. Do you
> know much about the FAXBACK.COM internals?
>

Yes, that's probably correct.  No, I don't know much about faxback.com.

However, I just tried a different one, www.t38faxvoip.com.  It's a much
more involved Windows installation, but it came up with the same symptoms.
 This is leading me to believe that the problem is more likely my FS
configuration.

Just for a test you know you can bypass it. FreeSWITCH will work just fine
> on a windows box, using the FAXModem stuff, and com0com driver.
>

That's not my objective.  I'm still early in the learning process for
FreeSwitch, and I'd like to keep it to one installation, on an OS that I
can understand (Linux).

That's what I use to have the M$ fax service talk to, and it works great.
> No hardware, and FS doing T38 right out of the Fax Service Server.
>

Let me see if I understand:  MS Fax is talking through a virtual serial
cable (com0com) to what it thinks is a FAX modem.  On the other side of
that virtual serial cable is something that takes the serial FAX data,
translates it to T38, and injects it into FS.  I'm a little unclear on the
last 2 pieces, because it still sounds like a black box to me.  What's "Fax
Service Server"?


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org> wrote:

> Also, are you routing the call to the txfax app?


I'm not.  I assumed that the purpose of txfax is to encode a TIFF file into
a T.38 stream, and my source is already T.38.  Am I missing something?

-- 
Steve
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