Muratec M840, M880, M860 manual Security, Passcode, TX Protection, Activating TX protection

Beyond the Basics

Security

Your machine has a number of features to enhance the security of your fax communications. These security features can help you let your private fax documents stay private, avoid unwanted outside communication and even protect against unauthorised use of your machine --- as well as control its authorised use.

The Passcode

For more secure incoming communications, a passcode system lets you protect documents set for polling, to poll documents from a Muratec fax machine. Under normal circumstances, your fax machine has a passcode of “0000”: this means the passcode operation is off, allowing calling fax units to communicate freely with yours. If you change the passcode, then your machine can communicate only with Muratec fax machines; other manufacturers’ fax machines

---- even those with protection code systems of their own ---- can’t get through.

Note: However, if you’re using the Block Junk Fax feature (see page 2.18), even incoming calls which meet the passcode test must come from appropriate phone number.

To set your fax machine’s passcode:

1.Press program, 7, mode/enter, 0, 3.

Set Passcode

2.Press mode/enter.

Passcode: 0000

3.Use the numeric keypad to enter your passcode. To move the cursor to a different digit, press one-touch key a to move left or b to move right.

4.When you have entered the passcode, press mode/enter.

Note: To turn off the passcode at any time, reset the passcode to “0000.”

TX Protection

Important: For this feature to work, you must have set the passcode.

When this feature is activated, only those who enter the proper passcode can send faxes from --- or even make settings on --- the machine.

Activating TX protection

1.Decide upon, and then write down the four-digit passcode (0000-9999) you want to use and put it in a safe place.

Important: Do not use 0000. This turns off TX pretection.

2.Press program, 7, mode/enter, 1, 3, mode/enter.

•If the passcode hasn’t yet been created, the LCD will show; go on to step 4.

Set Tx Protect?

• If the passcode has been created, the LCD will show:

Passcode:****

3.If you are modifying the TX protection’s passcode, use the numeric keypad to enter a four-digit existing passcode, then press mode/enter. If you enter the correct passcode, the LCD shows:

Set Tx Protect?

Note: If you enter an invalid passcode, the fax machine will reject the attempt and abort this operation.

4.Press mode/enter.

TX Protect OFF

5.If the setting you see is acceptable, skip to step 7. Otherwise, proceed to step 6.

6.To change the setting, press program once or twice until your desired setting appears. In this example, we’ve chosen “On”.

TX Protect ON

7.Press mode/enter.

Set Passcode?

8.Press mode/enter.

•If the passcode hasn’t yet been created, the LCD will show:

Passcode:0000

• If the passcode has been created, the LCD will show:

Passcode:****

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