receiving faxes manually

[rjo]

i have just configured my fax settings and have one phone
line for voice and fax, so instead of setting it up to
automatically receive, i set it up for manual receipt.

when an attempt was made to send me a fax, i dutifully
went to my fax console and hit "receive a fax now." the
monitor read that the call was answered, then that the
fax was being received, then that an error occured while
receiving the fax. any ideas? thanks!

[Hal Hostetler [MVP DTS]]

That's one of about four or five problems that folks complain about daily
which we really don't have an answer for. Its part of a list that includes:

"The fax console reports a 'fatal error - retries exceeded', but never
attempts to dial the modem"

"I can send/receive one fax successfully, but I have to reboot my machine to
gain control of the modem again (to send/receive another fax)."

"The fax installer wants file xxxxx.DLL but cannot find it"

There are several others; we all hope they'll be fixed one day...

Hal
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"rjo" > wrote in message
...
> i have just configured my fax settings and have one phone
> line for voice and fax, so instead of setting it up to
> automatically receive, i set it up for manual receipt.
>
> when an attempt was made to send me a fax, i dutifully
> went to my fax console and hit "receive a fax now." the
> monitor read that the call was answered, then that the
> fax was being received, then that an error occured while
> receiving the fax. any ideas? thanks!