Re: "Using XP Home Fax utility after setting up a network"

From: Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] (russval_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/28/04

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    Do you or do you not have an analog fax modem attached to an analog phone
    line? 

    -- 
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Kaz" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:25927AD4-9D81-41A2-8D44-AD9B940A8907@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Russ, but I cant even open this fax program any more, all I get are
error messages telling me that the printer has either lost its connection to
the server or that the name of the printer is incorrectly typed.  I dont
know what I have done here,  but I cant even find the fax program.  I used
to be able to go into communications or open an icon from the desktop but in
the program list there is an fax listed but its empty, and when I try to
open from the desktop using the icon this is when I get the error messages.
I have also tried to unistall and reinstall several times but I dont even
think that is working properly as it doesnt reinstall the fax and if it does
its not installing it where it used to be and I cant locate it.
>
> How ever, when I right click on the  desktop fax icon, i can go to
properties, the detail box opens telling me there is a program there.
> From the general tab I can access Advanced, I can access the Advanced
button from the short cut tab which does tell me that it has been selected
to run in a Separate memory space if that means anything,  but that area of
this box is greyed out and cant be changed.  I am wondering if some where
along the line while trying to configure the network access point through
the router that I may have selected something I shouldnt have, or used the
windows network wizard and chosen to share the original fax file that was
listed under my printer prior to understanding that XP Home does not have
that facility to share a fax.
> If thats the cause or case i unfortunatley dont know how to undo this.
>
> The modem seems fine and prior to setting up and only using the ISDN for a
stand alone connection things operated automatically. I didnt need to change
modems or do anything unusual to accept or send a fax on or off line, and I
also used the two chanels for the 128 speed connection that dropped back
when one of the lines was in use etc.
> Boy!,  this stuff has really got me bluffed, I thought i had done really
well setting that networking up the way it ended up needing to be done but
it looks like I blew it on the fax program LOL!  I have obviously done
something to disrupt or upset things, but due to so many attempts and
different ways of going about the networking I have no idea where to start
looking or how to go about finding the problem let alone fixing it.
>
> I went to device manager and found the Generic soft 56k I unistalled that
and reinstalled it,  but when this was being done I was online while doing
this and it knocked
> me offline and upset the ISDN connection that was already running.  Not
sure if that is normal or acceptable but I ignored it and following this on
attempting to reconnect ISDN I was then confronted with error messages
telling me the port was being used by something else etc.  I went through
the device manager settings and looked at both the ISDN and 56k's settings
but they didnt appear to be trying to connect to the same port, and there
where no conflicts,  so I couldnt understand that either.
> Anyway I shall soldier on as I am sure that eventially I will get to the
bottom of it all i just hope thats its before i start turning Grey or being
carted off to the funny farm.
>
> Thanks again
> Kaz
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