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Answering Machine
4.11
Remote Access
Creating or Changing the Remote Access
Passcode
Your fax machine has a special set of features that allow you to access and operate
its answering machine from any touch-tone telephone. But not just anyone can
call your fax and eavesdrop on your messages: before you can access your
answering machine’s messages remotely, you must create a four-digit passcode.
This code makes remote access to your messages secure.
The steps below let you create or change a four-digit passcode to protect your
answering machine messages. If you want even more security, however, you can
leave the passcode set as four zeros,
0000
. This setting denies all attempts at
remote access, and will not allow you or anyone else to access or operate the
answering machine remotely. (Of course, you can still retrieve messages when
you’re at the machine itself. This protection applies only to remote access.)
To set or change the remote access passcode:
1. Press
program
,
9
,
mode/enter
,
3
.
Set Access Code
2. Press
mode/enter
.
Remote Access
3. Press
mode/enter
. If no passcode has been entered since the last time the
fax’s memory was cleared, you’ll see:
Passcode: 0000
Otherwise, as a security measure, the fax will show you only the following:
Passcode: ****
4. Enter the passcode you want, using the numeric keypad. If you wish to move
the cursor to a different digit, press one-touch
a
to move left or one-touch
b
to
move right. In the example below, we have entered
0911
.
Passcode: 0911
5. When you have entered the passcode you want, press
mode/enter
.
The display will return to standby.
Remote Access Features
When you access and operate your answering machine remotely from a touch-
tone telephone, you can do the following:
• Play your memo and messages
• Erase one or all messages
• Repeat or skip your memo or a message
• Turn the pager function on or off
• Turn the automatic answer setting off
• Record your first outgoing message (but not the second; that one must be
recorded while you are at the fax)
• Use the fax’s voice mail box system (see page 4.7--4.10 for more detail).
---- and you can perform all of these operations on the same call!
You cannot record a memo remotely; any message you leave will be one of the
normal incoming messages.
Before you can use the remote access features, check the following:
• You have put the fax into answering machine mode by pressing
answer
.
• You have entered a passcode for your answering machine (see left).
• You are calling from a telephone that uses standard touch-tone signals.
Accessing Your Fax Remotely
To access your fax from a touch-tone telephone:
1. Call your fax.
2. While your outgoing message is playing, press
#
for about a second.
3. Enter your four-digit remote access passcode, followed by
#
.
4. If the fax does accepts the passcode you entered, you’ll hear one long beep,
followed immediately by short beeps. The long beep means you’re “in” ----
you can use remote access. The number of short beeps tells you how many
messages (including any memo) are stored in the answering machine.
If the fax does not accept the passcode you entered, you will hear no long
beep, but rather three fast, short beeps. If so, enter the four-digit passcode (not
preceded by
#
; just start with the passcode after the first time) more slowly,
then press
#
. If the second attempt also fails, try once more. If the fax does not
accept a caller’s passcode after three attempts, it will hang up.