Sharing Fax modem over network

We have the apple fax modem hooked up to our server, used to send and receive faxes. This is "shared" under system preferences. On the local LAN, all the other Mac's see this and can add the fax modem. We also have a site-site VPN and the Mac's on the other side do not automatically "see" the fax modem. I can put in the IP address and it will find it, but there is no Fax driver , or Apple modem driver to select. How do we add the Fax modem, so that we can send faxes?

I'm assuming you're talking about his...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107547
Sooo, here's "Finding and Listening to Shared iTunes Music Libraries"...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93365
"iTunes for Windows: Music Sharing With Windows Internet Connection Firewall"
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93396
Does System Profiler>Network>Firewall, say that iTunes Sharing is ON?

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