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Windows XP Pro provides a feature
that make it a very useful and in fact powerful platform for hosting /
running the NetCFax server securely, even though the fax
server cannot (currently) be run as service. We hope these notes will help you understand how
to take advantage of the new features made available by
XP Pro to run NetCFax.
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Overview
Windows XP Pro provides a new feature Microsoft call "Fast
Task Switching" (FTS) that actually uses what is known
as "Windows Terminal Services" (WTS). The
FTS/WTS system
lets you switch between different Windows login accounts on the same
(XP Pro) machine without actually having to "log out" of
the current account. This means that when you "switch
users" using FTS/WTS, any software applications that were
running under the previous account continue to run under that
login account (alone). This
provides a perfect situation for the NetCFax server to be run in !
STEP 1
Use any Windows login account that has administrator rights
(these rights are required to be able to run the NetCFax server) and
start the NetCFax server.
STEP 2
Then click the Windows Start button and select "log
off 'xxxxx'", and when the next small windows appears,
click the "Switch User" button.
STEP 3
The screen will normally switch to a standard Windows XP full screen
display showing all available Windows login accounts on this
machine. You can choose to login to any configured account
simply by clicking on the account you want to use on this screen.
(Depending on the user configuration of that machine, you may also
see the standard Windows Login dialog instead)
When you switch between these
Windows login accounts using FTS/WTS, you do have actually logged out
fully from the original administrator account that is still
running the NetCFax server.
CONCLUSION
Assuming that the administrator account used to start NetCFax
has a password set (Recommended), only those individuals who have
the correct password can re-login to that account, an therefore
nobody unauthorized can access the NetCFax server and make changes
to its configuration or stop it running.
NOTES
You need to be aware that doing this
does of course mean that any programs (as well as NetCFax) that
were
left running under that previous account ARE ALSO STILL RUNNING
when you use the FTS/WTS system to login to Windows XP with another
account.
IMPORTANT NOTE - The NetCFax
server can ONLY be run under a Windows login account that has
administrator access rights on any NT based version of
Windows. Neither "Power User" accounts or
"Limited/Restricted" accounts are allowed to start or
run the fax server.
The fax client can of course be
run on this same machine under any individual login account
irrespective of it's Windows login access rights.
Please note that with the
release of 2.70 and Pro 3.10 multiple instances of the fax client can be running at any one time
in different Windows login accounts under
this environment, so everyone using it can if they wish have their
own fax client running whenever they return to their Windows login
account using Fast Task Switching.
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