Article:		Faxing in Panther
Subject:		panther fax and airport base station
Date:		2003-11-26 16:29:19
From:		anonymous2
Is there a way for panther to set the default fax modem to be the modem of an airport base station ? If so, it'd be cool :-)

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• network faxing with panther?
  2003-12-05 04:16:22  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  It would be incredibly useful on a network to have 1 Panther Mac hooked up to an analog phoneline, and let the other Panter machines send faxes through that machine. Just like sharing your printers... In fact I thought this was in the developer previews of Panther, but now I can't find it anywhere?
• network faxing with panther?
  2003-12-08 05:39:15  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  This works fine. Click on "shared faxes" in the drop-down list of fax modems.
  

• panther fax and airport base station
  2003-11-28 07:52:26  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  No.
  
  I was thinking about the same possibility, but so far, everyone I spoke to agrees that it is not possible.
  
  That's not an Airport problem, though.
  It seems that the WiFi-Standard (or whatever the tech term is) is not designed to support faxing .....
  So whatever wireless access point/router (and there are not that many with a modemport) you use with your Mac (or PC for that matter) you won't be able to fax with it.
  
  I would be more than thrilled if someone would came up with a solution to this problem.
  
• panther fax and airport base station
  2003-12-08 03:52:23  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Panther faxing is just a CUPS print queue that converts PS to a fax document and sends it through the modem.
  
  The Airport basestation has a simple print queue in it (that uses the HP DirectJet print port number), but AFAIK it can only send the document to the USB port.
  
  What is needed is for Apple to add support to the Airport basestation firmware to direct the print queue to the modem. You'd also want it to receive faxes (and forward it to a machine on the network). This would be great if the modem could send and receive faxes whilst your broadband connection was using the WAN ethernet port.
• panther fax and airport base station
  2004-10-23 03:56:52  oyho [View]
  
  
  Hi! Very useful information, thanks.
  I see that these posts are back in 2003.. any new development from Apple or a 3rd party to resolve this issue?
  
  Thanks for your help!