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STOP PRESS
WE GET ASKED THIS SO OFTEN, SO
YES - NETCFAX WORKS
FINE ON XP ( with
or without SP1 or SP2)
as well as on W98, ME, and
of course on 2000 and 2003
servers
providing Remote Desktop Sessions to multiple networked clients
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available 10 - 4 Mon-Fri EST
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view the additional features that are
ONLY available in the new NetCFax
PRO+
v3.6 release)
CLICK
HERE for a list of
features in NETCFAX PRO
3.x
that are NOT available in NetCFax 2.x
CURRENT
NETCFAX RELEASES ARE
NetCFax v2.752.2
NetCFax Pro v3.16.2.2
NetCFax PRO+ v3.60.2.2
All
releases of NetCFax now
fully support Windows Vista...
NetCFax is a very
powerful networked faxing system designed for Microsoft Windows based
networks, and because we recognize that some people do not need all of
the features that we have discovered others find totally essential for
them, we decided to offer three different levels of NetCFax with
different functionality so that you can choose the level and cost that
best suits your own businesses faxing needs.
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This lists the major NetCFax features,
broken down first by the server features and then the client, and into functionality
groups within those areas.
PLEASE NOTE - It is not
designed as a totally exhaustive list of all the functionality provided by
the different versions of NetCFax, but it does provide a reasonable comparison list
showing which of the
major features are accessible in each of the different versions we
offer, letting you decide which system will best fit your own
business faxing requirements.
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Fax
server
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3.1
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Server -
Overview
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Pro & PRO+
ONLY
With
the release of NetCFax Pro v3.16 and PRO+ v3.60 ONLY (January 1,
2007 & later) The Fax Server can now be run as either a Windows Service
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standard Desktop Application. |
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easy to
install and configure |
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designed and powerful interface to the server to allow administrators easy
access to the servers configuration. |
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support for both single or multiple fax servers on the same
network or even external networks (accessed via the Internet). |
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support is provided for running under Windows XP with Fast Task Switching
enabled plus full
support for running under Windows Server 2000 or 2003 running
Remote Desktop Sessions. (NB You cannot
run the Fax Server AND the Fax Client(s) on the same Windows
Server machine at this time if it is providing fax client access
via RDP sessions) |
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access to all faxes held by the server is provided by the Fax
Server Faxes Cabinet. The server's
fax cabinet window lets you view and manage all faxes held by the server. |
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comprehensive logging of all server activity is performed
automatically. |
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Fax
printer driver is provided to allow printing from virtually all
other applications to create faxable TIF files that may
be attached to any fax. |
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can have the Fax Server and a fax client installed on the same
PC if you wish. |
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can have more than one NetCFax Server installed on your network if required,
providing that they are each on a different PC. Each
server must of course be licensed separately. |
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database and all faxable files in the server system can be
backed up and restored at any time to provide additional
security. |
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Fax server's complete configuration system can be backed up, and
restored, quickly and easily to allow rapid reconfiguration
after a hard disk problem or similar issue that requires Windows
to be reinstalled. |
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detailed transmission reports are maintained by the server for
all faxes sent and received. |
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fax server controls all access by clients, and consequently also
the licensing of the NetCFax system. The server will ONLY
allow the relevant number of access accounts to connect to it as
your license permits. |
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fax server alone stores ALL OF THE faxes in the system.
Fax clients do not store faxes locally, other than temporarily
to view or print them out. |
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fax server has a recovery option that lets you reset its basic
configuration back to the original defaults, and/or to clear all
user access accounts, including user access groups and
departments, and/or to remove (clear down) ALL of the current
faxes in the system entirely. |
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fax server has an automatic closedown and restart option that lets you
close it down for a specified period of time to allow overnight
backups or other maintenance to take place without effecting the
fax servers normal operations. Once the specified period has
expired, the Fax server is automatically restarted as a desktop
application or Windows Service as appropriate. |
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Pro
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PRO+
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- RECEIVING FAXES |
2.7
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3.1
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3.6
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| All of the installed fax modems can be controlled by a
scheduler that will allow you to exactly control when faxes can
be received |
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configured to both Send and Receive faxes, or just Send or
Receive as required by your environment. |
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AUTOMATIC
PRINTING
Fully
automated printing of received faxes is available, and the
printer to be used can also be specified if not the Windows
default printer. |
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SPAM
FILTERING
Optional
"Spam" fax filter to delete faxes from any specified
spam senders immediately on receipt of such faxes. |
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LOGGING
The
server maintain full logs of all faxes that are received. |
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FORWARDING/COPYING
Comprehensive
support
for automatically sending received faxes to specified recipients by email
based on various different parameters such as COM port or CSID
is fully supported in Pro & PRO+
MOBILE USERS - Received faxes can
be sent to a single or even multiple email addresses, allowing
you to have every fax received by NetCFax forward as either a
normal fax (TIF) file or even as a PDF to both your normal email
system and your mobile/handheld email device, so you never need
to miss any incoming faxes, even if you are out of the office. |
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ONLY AUTO EMAIL FORWARDING
ON CSID - Received
faxes can now be sent to different email addresses based on the
CSID (remote fax ID) that has sent it. Any faxes received
whose CSID is not specified in this system are sent to the
default email recipient(s) (if configured)
To allow you to have all faxes forwarded by email you can use a
string of 6 asterisks (******) which forces a match to ANY CSID.
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ONLY Routing of Received faxes -
The fax server can control whether any fax clients with full received fax
access rights are allowed to use the received faxes routing
system.
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ONLY AUTO EMAIL FORWARDING
ON COM PORT - All
received faxes can now be forwarded by email to a specified
recipient based totally on the phone line (COM port) it
was received on. This option, if enabled, will override
all other received fax email notifications.
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ONLY AUTO FAX FORWARDING
ON CSID- Received
faxes can now be forwarded to another specified fax number based on the
CSID (remote fax ID) that has sent it. Only faxes received
whose CSID are specified in this system are forwarded on
by fax.
This feature can be used in addition to the email forwarding of
faxes received as shown above.
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ONLY MANUAL
FORWARDING RECEIVED FAXES (by fax) - All
received faxes can be forwarded manually at any time from the context menu options
provided in the fax cabinet of the fax
server.
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ONLY v3.00
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- COMMENTING RECEIVED
FAXES - The fax
server can now add a short
"comment" to any received fax. This allows a short
note about the content or recipient of that fax to be added for
easy identification at a later time. This comment is
limited to 500 characters.
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- RECEIVED FAXES OPTIONS - All of the received faxes
options are grouped together on a single Property
sheet to make accessing and checking them very much
easier. This is accessed from a single option on the Tools
menu,
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ONLY ASSIGNING
RECEIVED FAXES TO INDIVIDUALS/GROUPS (by CSID) - All
received faxes can be ASSIGNED TO INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS
automatically by the fax server, based on a check of the senders
fax CSID.
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ONLY JUNK FAX FILTERS - Faster handling for "junk" RECEIVED faxes
To
make this as effective as possible, there is an option on the
Junk Fax filtering system to have the server check for matches
immediately it receives the remote sender's CSID (station
identity), (which is during the initial dialing protocol).
If a match is made, the server will immediately disconnect the
remote fax system without even accepting the fax.
By design, this does not notify the remote sender, it simply
disconnects the NetCFax modem, which is "hopefully"
even more annoying to the sender as they will not know why they
were not able to send their unsolicited garbage to you, so will
probably waste more of their time performing further and still
futile resends.
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JUNK FAX FILTERS - To allow anyone that can view
received faxes to quickly and easily add the remote sender's
CLSID to the junk fax filters list on the fax server, there is a
new option on the context menus that lets you add these to fax
server list automatically.
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Pro & PRO+
ONLY Auto
creation of PDF copies of received faxes
The Received faxes system can be configured to always create
a PDF copy of all faxes received. These are stored in a folder
decided by the fax administrator, which can be a shared folder
on a network server if required.
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PRO+ ONLY - REAL TIME UPDATE
The Received faxes cabinet is now updated in real time when
new faxes arrive
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PRO+ ONLY - REAL TIME UPDATE
The Received faxes cabinet is now updated in real time when
fax clients make changes or additions to the comments in a fax.
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PRO+ ONLY - REAL TIME UPDATE
The Received faxes cabinet is now updated in real time when a
fax client marks a fax as Seen or Unseen
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PRO+ ONLY - OCR SCANNING
The Fax server provides support for OCR scanning of all new
faxes as they arrive.
This is done using the Transym TOCR OCR system, which needs to
be licensed separately.
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PRO+ ONLY - OCR SCANNING
The Fax server can also provide OCR
scanning of received faxes for any fax client on request.
Once the server has performed the scan, the client is offered a
copy of the OCR text file to view.
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PRO+ ONLY - BANNER OVERPRINTING
The Fax server now has an option that lets you create a special
"banner" line that can contain various data from the
fax itself by entering simple MACROS into the text in your
banner.
This works for both incoming
and outgoing faxes, and if enabled, the fax server will
automatically overprint this banner at the top or bottom of the
faxes.
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- SENDING FAXES |
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OUTGOING
FAX TYPES
Faxes can
be created as cover page only, cover page plus attached
"printed files", or just the "fax printed files"
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AUTOMATING
COVER PAGE CONTENTS
Cover
page (content) templates can be created on, and stored by the
server, and these server templates are then made available to
all clients if requested. (Clients cannot change the templates
owned by the server) |
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ONLY SENDING OF FAXES - All outgoing faxes (that are not
just cover page faxes) are named with a more understandable
fax file name. This system uses any/all of the fax senders name,
the recipient
fax # and the fax recipients name (in that sequence), and
then combines these (providing at least one or more is
available) into a file name, replacing all spaces with dashes (
- ), and separating each field of data with an under bar ( _
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eg: sales-dept_+1-998-234-4851_prospective_purchaser.tif
As can be seen by the above example, this helps you to rapidly
identify a fax by the faxable file name alone.
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ONLY DIALING RULES
To allow you to create dialing rules to avoid
all users having to know which calls require a long distance
(toll call) code, or are extended area codes etc, NetCFax Pro
now provides a powerful dialing rules system. (US style 7, 10 or
11 digit numbers only)
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ONLY FAX PREVIEW
To allow you to check the attached pages of a
fax before you send it , the fax server has a Preview button
that displays all attached pages as thumbnails in a resizable
window directly from the main fax creation window.
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SHARED
ADDRESS BOOK
The
Fax Server has its own address books system, and the contents
can be accessed by all clients (shared) but clients cannot make
changes to the entries in this book
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CLIENT'S
ADDRESS BOOKS
The fax
server can store personal address books for the clients.
The fax
server can then provide the correct personal address book
to the client whenever a login is made. This means that no
matter what client system you log in to, you can have your own
personal address book available to you. |
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IMPORTING
AND EXPORTING
Data
from most other applications that can export data in the industry
standard CSV format can be imported into the server shared address book
quickly and easily. |
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MULTIPLE
FAX SERVERS
If you
have multiple fax servers on your network, they can be
configured to share the personal address book data they hold
with other Fax servers on a scheduled basis so that all servers
have the latest address book data for all networked users. |
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ONLY Merging address books
The server can merge any fax clients address book that it
holds with it's own (shared) address book.
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- PRINTING |
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printed to the fax printer may be stored by the server or client
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accessed at any time from that same client or server. |
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Fax Server allows you configure the fax
printer to prompt or not not prompt you for a file name. If you
enable this option, the faxable TIF file created by the fax
printer is simply saved to your specified printer files folder
without any prompt being displayed, using the default file name
the Fax Server provides. |
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ONLY PRINTING OF FAXES - All faxes received can be
automatically printed on any specified printer
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ONLY PRINTING OF FAXES - All faxes received can be
automatically printed on different printers if the Departments
system is in use, as each department can specify their own
printer for these faxes. This is based on the phone
line/COM port/modem they arrive on.
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ONLY PRINTING OF FAXES - All faxes can be printed
very easily from the faxes cabinet of the fax
server. There is a Print button to
print the entire fax, and context menus
offering the options to print cover page only, attached pages
only, the entire fax, or just a transmission report, and the
client also now has a Print menu.
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Gateway |
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The
Email-2-Fax gateway system will accept email messages that
are sent to it in fully BASE64 encoded format. This format
is often (& mostly accidentally) used by email clients such
as Outlook Express. NetCFax
will now try to identify such messages, and decode them
automatically, and then try to process the email contents in the
usual way to create an outgoing fax from the contents. |
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Email-to-Fax gateway system is provided with both an SMTP
server and/or automatic collection from any specified POP3
mailbox to allow emails to be sent as faxes very easily. |
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ONLY To allow user of SAP / ERP systems to take
advantage of the NetCFax Email-to-Fax gateway, which now allows
NetCFax to identify the recipient fax # from the TO address line
of the email.
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limit is set for the number of modems you can use with NetCFax.
It will support as many standard Cass 1, 2 or 2.0 modems as your
windows system will support on different COM ports under
Windows. |
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can be individually configured to just Send, just Receive, or to
both Send and Receive faxes. |
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of all of the installed fax modems can now be controlled by a
scheduler that will allow you to exactly control what fax
activity occurs between certain hours of the day. |
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of some of the installed fax modems can be excluded totally from
use by NetCFax if required, so they can be used by other
applications. |
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of of "high end" fax boards such as those from
BrookTrout and other manufacturer s is not currently supported
by NetCFax. Other multi port boards such as DigiBoard are
supported.
If you intend to use more than
one modem with NetCFax, we strongly recommend that you obtain a
multi port board and do not try to install and use multiple
individual modems as the drivers provided by the modem
manufacturers for these modems have shown that they quite often
do not work well when supporting more than one modem.
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DEPARMTENTS
The Fax Server Administrator can define and create "departments". These let you assign different
departmental access rights for received faxes. This enables
the concept of ONLY the members in one department being
able to access received faxes that were received on a certain
telephone line/number.
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departments system also includes the ability to configure
separate printers for each department to handle all faxes
printed automatically by the system, based on the COM port
(Phone line) they are received on.. |
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GROUPS
Administrator definable
user access groups can be created, so that you can assign
different access rights to one or more login accounts quickly
and easily. Fexample, the groups system lets you create groups
that have access to received faxes rights access to
their own outgoing faxes
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Server access - To allow
any fax client to connect to a fax server, there must first be a
NetCFax login account created on the fax server. This is a
standard Login name and password, with the password being case
sensitive in the usual way.
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CONTROL OVER
Server access - Each NetCFax login account that is created
on the fax server can be assigned various access right to
faxes. The three standard groups are
"Individual", "Administrator" and
"Blocked".
Individual access only allows users of these accounts to view
their own outgoing faxes (Pending, sent or failed) and no access
at all to received faxes.
"Administrator" accounts have full access to all faxes
held by the server.
"Blocked" accounts are not allowed to connect.
This allows accounts to be temporarily cancelled.
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ONLY CONTROL OVER FAX DELETIONS - To allow
any fax server administrator to specify what groups of users may
delete certain faxes, a configuration system is provided
that lets the server administrator decide if all users, or only
those with administrator rights may delete faxes, and in
addition, they can block the deletion of faxes from any
specified cabinet drawer as well.
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ONLY CONTROL
A complete list of user login accounts in
CSV format can be quickly imported to create a new set of login
accounts rapidly. The format of these CSV files is very
simple.
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ONLY ROAMING LOGIN PROFILES - To
provide the maximum flexibility and ease of use of the NetCFax
clients when connecting from different client PC's and
potentially to different fax servers, we have now introduced
what we are calling "ROAMING LOGIN PROFILES"
These save the entire fax clients configuration system together
with your address book and personal
details to the
fax server you are logged into. Once you have created a
roaming profile, you can use the "Roaming Profile"
button on the fax client login window on ANY FAX CLIENT you
choose to use, and have your entire personal fax client
configuration and address book downloaded and used when you login to the fax
server. This means that you no longer have to worry about
fax notifications settings or any other preferences you have set
up in your personal fax client, as they will all be there on any
fax client you sit down and use.
Naturally, the fax servers have the ability to be configured to
support, or not support this feature.
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ONLY ROAMING PROFILES
If you have multiple NetCFax servers on your network, they
can exchange the client's roaming profiles with the other
fax servers
in addition to the address book data they can already exchange.
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- NETWORKING |
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TCP
All
communication between the Fax server and the Fax clients uses
the Internet standard TCP protocol. This means that no network
shares or other inter machine access rights need to be
configured or provided. |
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Homing capability
The NetCFax server can be configured to either listen on a
specific IP address, or on all available IP addresses on multi
homed machines.
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Pro & PRO+
ONLY Auto search for multiple NetCFax servers
The NetCFax server can check your local network and list all
active NetCFax server it finds. It lists their IP address and
the server registration serial #.
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CABINET
The
NetCFax server provides a built-in fax cabinet that provides
tabbed access to separate "drawers" that contain
details of all faxes held by the server.
The Drawers provided are :
Pending, for faxes that have not yet been sent.
Sent, for faxes that have been sent successfully
Failed, for faxes that were not able to be sent
Received for all faxes that have been received.
v4 ONLY PDF- copies of all received faxes in PDf format |
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FEATURES
The
faxes cabinet provides full facilities to view faxes, print
them, forward them by fax or email, or even delete them.
Both standard buttons and a comprehensive context menu options
provide a great many features.
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VIEWING
FAXES
The
faxes cabinet allows you to select any available fax file viewer
on the machine to be the default viewer used by NetCFax.
In fact, NetCFax automatically scans your system on startup to
try to identify other applications that Windows has listed as
capable of handling TIF files. You can even manually add
other viewers if you need to do so.
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A powerful search system is built into the Fax clients
faxes cabinet
The NetCFax client cabinet lets you search through the currently
open drawer on a combination of different field/column criteria,
or even to look in all listed faxes for a match to the data
entered in any column. If one (or more) faxes in the
current drawer do contain a match, a new window listing all of
the matches is displayed, and this can be linked to the cabinet
drawer automatically so that as you select each one, that fax is
selected for you in the cabinet drawer so that you can see all
the details.
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PRO+
ONLY SUPPORT FOR REAL TIME UPDATING OF RECEIVED
FAXES
Whenever a fax is received, the server automatically marks
it as unseen, and this is usually displayed in red using a bold
font. You can mark it Seen, add or edit comments attached
to the fax, view or delete it. All changes made to the received
faxes are visible to all connected fax clients in real time.
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