- A Windows 2000 or 2003 server machine with at least 256 Mbytes of RAM and an 800 MHZ processor.
- A professional fax device: A Brooktrout TR 114, TR 1034 or Trufax fax board, an EICON DIVA PRO/SERVER fax card or an AVM active fax card. You can use class 2 or 2.0 fax modems using either the Microsoft or the GFI fax modem drivers, although we strongly recommend using one of the fax devices listed above. For a complete list go to http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID001220
UTH - If you are installing GFI FAXmaker on a separate machine, the IIS SMTP service will need to be installed. The IIS SMTP service is included in every Windows distribution, including Windows professional. To verify the Installation of the SMTP Service: In Control Panel, open Add/Remove Programs, click Add/Remove Windows Components. Click the Internet Information Services (IIS) component, click Details, and then verify that the SMTP Service check box is selected. If it is not selected, click to select it, click OK, and then follow the installation directions that are displayed.
- If you are using Microsoft Exchange Server, and are not installing the fax server on the Exchange server machine, you must install Microsoft Outlook on the fax server machine and configure it to connect to a mailbox (via MAPI) on the Microsoft Exchange server machine. This is needed for conversion of TNEF to MIME.
- If using Windows 2000, ensure you have Service Pack 3 or later installed.
- IMPORTANT: Disable Anti Virus software from scanning the GFI FAXmaker & other relevant directories! AV products are known to both interfere with normal operation as well as slow down any software which requires file access. In fact Microsoft does not recommend running file based anti virus software on the Exchange Server. For more information: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID001523
- Make sure that backup software is not backing up any of the GFI FAXmaker directories at any point.
