Timbuktu Pro has a comprehensive, flexible security framework. You can customize Timbuktu Pro remote user access restrictions to your personal comfort level, as well as to the needs of your organization, in the Security dialog box. No remote users can connect to your PC for any purpose without your authorization.
User Privileges
Monitoring Remote Connections
Personal Security
You can tailor user privileges to your security needs. Remote
users—Timbuktu Pro users on Windows or Macintosh computers—can access
your computer as Guest Users (which
include Ask for Permission Users and Temporary
Guests), Registered Users, or Windows
NT Users. You can assign Password
Restrictions for Registered Users to ensure the highest possible security.
It's up to you to designate which services—Send, Exchange, Observe, Control, Notify, Chat, and Intercom—are available to any of these remote users. By default, Guest Users are granted the Send and Notify services.
Note: Privileges granted to Guest Users are automatically granted to Registered Users and Windows NT Users. You cannot withhold a privilege from a Registered User and Windows NT User if that privilege is granted to guests.
When you want to leave your PC as accessible to your users as it is to you, you can allow unrestricted guest access. You may also prevent users from accessing your computer entirely. See Keeping Users Out.
Timbuktu Pro's Connections menu displays the names of all current users connected to your computer and the services they're using, as well as a list of recent users, and the service icon reminds you of the connection. See Monitoring Remote Connections for more information. If you wish, you can disconnect remote users at any time. Timbuktu Pro also maintains an activity log with records of all users who accessed your computer and the services they used.
To maintain your own security, you may set a master password to prevent anyone from changing your Timbuktu Pro settings. Plus, if you have a Registered User account on another Timbuktu Pro computer, you may change your password at any time.
When you configure Timbuktu Pro for your own computer, you can set many other Timbuktu Pro preferences in the Preferences dialog box.