Saul,
I'm basically doing just that here, with a different machine dialing
out to send faxes - thus not going through STN itself. My STN
machine is a dedicated floppy-only '486 connected to the rest over
ethernet. The only catch is that we can only use that phone line
for one purpose or the other at any one time. I.e., FAX or STN, not
both.
I don't disconnect the STN machine, just fire up the FAXmodem
and send what I need to, and then PING a foreign address (i.e, one
outside my network) to make STN reestablish its connection.
Takes only a few seconds normally. I do, of course, check that my
wife is not doing something online before doing this - I'm not ready
to get killed just yet. ;->
HTH
John
> Can one use a fax program with the share the net portal?? I am running a
> small 4 pc peer-to-peer Windows 98 network. I just set up stn
and its
> working fine. Can I use the small phone line that STN uses to do broadcast
> faxes??
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