sending faxes via 802.11b

[ye110man]

is it possible to send a fax from my wireless laptop by accessing the modem of my desktop?

 

[The Stigenator]

If your modem has a fax software and there is a fax printer driver on teh other machine.. you can share the fax printer driver and then add it to your machine's printer.. then select it so you can fax from your machine over the WiFI network and then the base machine with the modem will dial out

 

[DarkManX]

or if u use www.efax.com

 

[rw120555]

Originally posted by: The_good_guy
If your modem has a fax software and there is a fax printer driver on teh other machine.. you can share the fax printer driver and then add it to your machine's printer.. then select it so you can fax from your machine over the WiFI network and then the base machine with the modem will dial out

That is interesting...OK, I have Winfax Pro installed on my machine with the fax modem. Would I need to install Winfax Pro on other machines too? Or do I just need to share the printer driver? If the latter, when I fax will I get all the bells and whistles I get with the main machine (address book, choice of cover pages, etc.) or will it just be type in a phone number and it will take it from there?

Sounds like yet another reason to secure your wireless network...Otherwise people could start sending out faxes all over the world, right?