Shared Fax Services with XP Home Client

SBS 2003 R2 is up and running great. Following the Step-By-Step guid for
configuring and using fax on Windows Small Business Server 2003 the server
can successfully send and receive faxes. Now the time comes to set up the
clients with the Shared Fax Client.

All clients in the office run Windows XP Home. In trying to deploy the Fax
Client I receive error messages that it can not be installed on a Windows XP
Home machine.

When I simply try to print to the shared fax server that is visible through
the printers folder I receive the error message Fax Server Information Cannot
Be Retrieved.

Any thoughts?

Since Windows XP Home Edition clients cannot join a domain, the SBS Fax (and
other features) are unsupported, which makes their usefulness with SBS 2003
"iffy" at best.

Workstations unable to use the shared fax
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...3f46c6f25e4648

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Piltski" <Piltski@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:90E0D7D3-3BD0-41AD-A87C-A10952A734E0@microsoft.com...
> SBS 2003 R2 is up and running great. Following the Step-By-Step guid for
> configuring and using fax on Windows Small Business Server 2003 the server
> can successfully send and receive faxes. Now the time comes to set up the
> clients with the Shared Fax Client.
>
> All clients in the office run Windows XP Home. In trying to deploy the
> Fax
> Client I receive error messages that it can not be installed on a Windows
> XP
> Home machine.
>
> When I simply try to print to the shared fax server that is visible
> through
> the printers folder I receive the error message Fax Server Information
> Cannot
> Be Retrieved.
>
> Any thoughts?