Q. Currently we use GFI fax software to handle the reception and storage of faxes not assigned to physical devices. It works well but its only drawback is that it has a card connected to a physical machine that I’m trying to virtualize into Citrix Xenapp.
Does anyone know of a product that I can plug fax lines into that will take the fax and print it to a domain printer and also store in the user's home drive folder, but that doesn’t require a workstation or server?
Thank you.
Jim Gaba
Sierra Nevada Construction, Inc.
A. We are using a Panasonic Panafax UF-8000. Basically a fax machine with a fax server built in. It forwards faxes to an email address and converts to PDF. Old school, but it requires virtually zero maintenance.
Eric Gardner
Clune Construction
A. We use a FaxFinder FF830. Faxes can be emailed or printed out. On bid day we have faxes going to a folder. Then they get printed to high speed laser printers in the bid room. You also have a digital saved copy just in case.
Thanks,
CJ Rainer
Doster Construction Company, Inc.
A. If you have a PRI for your phone system then GFI has a Brooktrout SR140 software adapter that you can run in a virtual machine. I’ve had my GFI Faxmaker running on VMware for several years with the ability to answer 12 concurrent faxes at a time. I think they also have another software adapter available but I have not researched it since my setup is working.
Funny story: we had some city employees here watching while we were bidding a job. One of them was wanted to see our fax solution. I explained it was virtual but could tell it wasn’t sinking in. I then showed him the server room, pointed at the servers in the rack and said "it’s in there" and he was happy.
Brett Berdine
Thos S Byrne Ltd