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How to login with a fax client

The NetCFax Pro v3 login window is shown below.

The list at the top shows all the currently identified fax servers on your network (or possibly even across the Internet or a WAN.)  Just select the fax server you want to connect to. (As you can see, our own network has several available NetCFax servers we are able to select from and use)

You just enter your login account details in the two fields below this list labeled "Enter your Login Name" and "Enter your Password".  The port shown on the right is usually prefilled for you, and should never need to be changed.  Login names are NOT case sensitive, but passwords ARE ALWAYS CASE SENSITIVE.

If it is not disabled, and you check the "Remember Me" option, these same login details will be prefilled for you each time you open the login window, to save you having to enter them each and every time. However, please note that if the fax client is configured to always use the Windows login details, these will always override this setting. 

Normally, all you need to do then is click the "Login (Normal)" button, and you will be connected to the fax server and logged in so that you can use all the facilities provided by NetCFax.

If you have NetCFax Pro v3.11 and later (not available in the 2.7x series) and you find that your login is refused, or perhaps you don't even know what it should be, you can take advantage of the new automatic "Visitor" accounts provided by the system. If the server has this option enabled, you just need to type in any login name that is at least 8 characters in length, and includes at least one space, and click the "Visitor" button.  If the server does not already have an account using that name, it will automatically create a new and special Visitor  account.  IMPORTANT - Visitor accounts are automatically deleted by both the fax client and the fax server as soon as you log back out.  These accounts do however allow you to create and send faxes very quickly and easily, even if you are just a visitor to the system.

If your fax server allows the creation of "Roaming accounts" you can of course select that button.  These store all Fax Client configuration and all of your address book and personal data on the fax server, NOT on the fax client machine. When you logout using a Roaming account that same data is saved back to the fax server.

If you want to check what facilities a server provides, you can select any available fax server and then click the "Check server status" button, which will display a window similar to the one shown below.

The option to "Add/Remove Servers" is provided to let you have the Fax Client scan your network for any available fax servers, and also to let you manually add other fax servers, such as those available to you on the Internet (if any)

In the example above, you can see that an auto scan is being performed, and so far, has found 2 different NetCFax servers available on our own network (Quite understandably!).  To check to see if each of these servers are available, just select it in the list and click the "Test" button to the right of the list.  You can also enter a machine name or IP address in the lower field, then press the "Test" button alongside it. If a fax server responds at the address entered, it will be added to your list automatically.  Clicking the "Information" button will display the same information as shown above for any listed server that is active.

If you want to clear the list of available servers at any time, perhaps to rescan the network for all of the currently available servers, just click the "Rescan for Servers" button.

If you know the fax server is running and is accessible,  and yet it does not get listed by the auto scan system, you may need to type it's IP address in the lower field and then click the TEST button immediately to the right. This will usually identify it for you.

IMPORTANT - By default, once a fax client is not logged in to a fax server, most of it's configuration system is also not available (by design).

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