Configuring Fax

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Windows XP does not support Distinctive Ring:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=272943
Distinctive Ring Is Not Supported by Windows 2000 Fax

Some third party hardware devices can provide a work-around:

http://www.youcansave.com/switchboard.html
Emerson Switchboard
http://www.command-comm.com/products.html
ComSwitch®

There is no way that I know of to remotely press the manual receive button
other than with PC Anywhere, VNC, or the like.

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"Nicolas Poirier" <adlc@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
newsz2Fd.25120$b64.637248@news20.bellglobal.com...
>I use a fax program on my computer. This is a company computer connected to
> one telephone line and there are many telephones connected to this line.
> The
> program used is Windows XP Fax Console. It is configured to start
> manually.
>
> Problem is that I'm not allways seat in front of my computer to press the
> button. Is there a way to configure the program to start receiving
> automatically? By example, if I answer the phone somewhere far far away in
> the building, I hear a fax tone then I press a button witch tells computer
> to recieve right away.
>
> I've tried automatic reception after 4 rings but then fax competes with
> answering machine and it doesn't differentiate voice from fax signal.
>
> Thank you
> Nicolas Poirier
>
>