<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 6, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Erich Wetzel wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">...</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>Where exactly in Server Admin, considering the above, can I get the settings for the Fax queue and share it?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>It should normally be accessible from the Printing service UI; I'll get a copy of 10.6 server loaded up here and see if I can walk you through it.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Also, with regard to the terminal command you sent, where can I find the queueid? I looked for something indicating ids in Server Admin and also in the web admin interface at localhost:631 with no luck. Is the id the queue name?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Typically it is the queue name with all spaces and special characters replaced by the underscore (e.g. "My Fax" becomes "My_Fax"). You can run "lpstat -p" to get a list of the print queues and their IDs.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Lastly, where does the PPD for the Apple Fax/Modem reside? When trying to create or modify a Fax queue manually via the web admin interface I always get hung up at selecting the PPD since it does not appear to be in the same location as the PPDs for printers.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>It isn't. The fax PPD is buried in the PrintCore framework:</div><div><br></div><div>/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/PrintCore.framework/Resources/Fax.ppd</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>It has felt odd for some time to me and other users on the Apple > Server forum that a fax queue is not set up or shared in the same fashion as other printers in the OS and that the PPD seems to be hidden in a location not easily found when using the web interface. Is there something obvious that I have been missing over the years? Can you recommend a specific procedure which would create and share a fax if it should be different from what I have described above?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Nope, it should work like any other print queue.</div><div><br></div><div>(BTW, I'm happy to help here, but you should definitely file a bug with Apple directly to make sure all of the right people know there is a problem...)</div><div><br></div><div>
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