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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!raindrop!unger From: unger@raindrop.seaslug.org (Thomas Unger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hylafax - you do not have permission... Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 22:26:01 GMT Organization: Wet Weather Consulting Lines: 26 Message-ID: <DnyznD.H6t.0.raindrop.seaslug.org@raindrop.seaslug.org> References: <313e3b30.4065664@news.synapse.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs120-10.u.washington.edu In article <313e3b30.4065664@news.synapse.net>, Yves Dagenais <yves@streamwave.com> wrote: >"Service refused; you do not have permission to use the fax server >from root@machinename.domain.com." > > >Now according to documentations, it's said that access is controlled >by the /etc/hosts. I have defined everything in there as a normal >hosts file has. However, I still can't get it to let me fax. Any >ideas anyone? Umm, sort of. Really, they mean /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts. Mine looks like: 127.0.0.1 Just one entry allowing people on the local machine to send faxes. Works here. [I think that the people who wrote hylafax did a poor job in choosing file names. "etc/hosts" no wonder your confused. "config" bah, way too generic.] Tom.