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- To use the MaxFax voice and fax software with LineShare, follow these steps:
-
- 1. Make sure that your have MaxFax version 3.5.2 or better, LineShare
- version 3.1 or better.
-
- 2. Open the MaxFax application.
- a) Select the Modem Settings item from the Configure menu. The Modem
- Settings dialog box appears.
- b) Select "Disabled" in the "Fax Mode" menu.
- c) Press OK and select Quit from the File Menu.
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- 3. Install LineShare.
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- 4. Restart the computer.
-
- 5. Open the LineShare control panel.
- a) Select the port your to which your modem is connected.
- b) Click the Attach button.
- c) Select MaxFax&ARA&Data.
- d) Click the Attach button. The Options dialog box appears.
- e) Select the modem type from the Modem menu.
- f) Click OK.
-
- 6. Check that the 'Line Status' field in the LineShare control panel
- indicates "Waiting for a call".
-
- 7. Open the MaxFax application.
- a) Select MaxFax System Prefs from the Configure menu.
- b) Switch the Arbitrate serial ports option OFF.
- c) Click Save.
- d) Select the Modem Settings item from the Configure menu. The Modem
- Settings dialog box appears.
- e) Select the MaxFax@Modem Port from the Port menu.
- f) Select "Voice/SR Fax" in the "FaxMode" menu.
- g) Press OK.
- h) Select Quit from the File Menu.
-
- 8. Check that Lineshare and MaxFax are configured properly: call your modem
- and leave a voice message, send a fax to your computer, send a fax from your
- computer. Check the LineShare status: when there is no call in progress, the
- 'Line Status' field (of the LineShare control panel) should indicate
- "waiting for a call".
-
- Configuring ARA:
- 1. Open the Remote Access Setup control panel.
- a) Select ARA/LineShare from the Modem menu (this file comes with LineShare
- and should be placed into the Extensions folder).
- b) Select the 'ARA@Modem' port from the Port menu.
- c) Select the "Answer calls" option.
- d) Close the Remote Access Setup control panel.
-
- 2. Open the MaxFax application.
- a) Select Voice Mailbox Editor from the Windows menu.
- b) Create an ARA mailbox by clicking the new button in the Mailbox editor
- window.
- c) Change the mailbox type from 'Record' to 'Data'.
- e) Uncheck the 'Play Greeting checkbox if you wish MaxFax to not play a
- greeting before switching to ARA.
- f) Select 'ARA' from the 'Switch callers to:' popup if you are using ARA
- 2.0. If you are using ARA 1.0 or any other communications program, select
- 'Other...'. If you are using ARA 1.0 enter ARA1 in the Edit Text box below
- the 'Switch callers to:' popup menu.
- g) Enter the Mailbox ID you want callers to use to access ARA
-
- All callers who wish to connect to AppleTalk Remote Access on your
- machine need to know the Mailbox ID of the 'Data' mailbox you just created.
- They will need to follow a special dialing procedure to get MaxFax to stop
- playing a greeting message and switch to negotiating a connection with ARA.
- To connect to your computer via ARA, they will append several commas to the
- phone number and then enter the ARA mailbox ID you set above. For example,
- if your phone number is 555-2424 and the ARA Mailbox ID is 1, a caller
- should enter 555 2424,,,,,,,,,1# into the "phone number" field in the ARA
- client document. Each comma results in a two second delay before dialing
- the mailbox ID. The mailbox ID must be dialed after MaxFax has answered the
- call and is playing a greeting message but before the greeting has finish
- playing. MaxFax will hear the mailbox ID and switch to ARA. You may need
- to experiment to get the correct number of commas in the dial string so that
- the Mailbox ID is dialed during the greeting message.
-
- Configuring other communication applications:
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- If you only use a communication application to place outgoing calls, you
- need not reconfigure it - it can use the Modem port as it did before MaxFax
- and LineShare were installed. If you want to receive calls using
- communication software (BBS, e-mail, etc.), you should reconfigure it to use
- the Data or Data1 LineShare subport. Next enter the MaxFax Voice mailbox
- editor and create a data mailbox, Choose 'Other...' from the 'Switch Caller
- to:' popup menu. In the Edit Text field below the popup, enter the name of
- the port you configured your communications application to use (Data or
- Data1). When a caller enters the mailbox ID of the data mailbox, MaxFax
- will tell LineShare to pass the call to the program connected to the named
- LineShare subport. Callers connect to these other communications programs
- in the same way as they do with ARA. They simply add commas and a mailbox
- ID to the dialing string.
-