Fax Client User Access Rights

The fax service is a secure service. In the Win32 environment, users must have access rights to successfully call certain fax client functions. The service performs an access check each time a client application calls a fax client function. To check a user's access rights, an application can call the FaxAccessCheck function.

If you are using the Microsoft COM implementation, your fax client application cannot access this functionality at this time. If a client does not have the access privileges required to perform a specific task, the method or function fails and returns the value HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED).

The fax service administration application, a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in component, is available for users to query and modify job access, port access, and global configuration data access privileges.

The following topics contain detailed information about fax access rights:

• Specific fax access rights
• Generic fax access rights
• Required fax access rights by function

For more information, see Fax Port Access Levels.