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About logging in
Depending on how your administrator set up the server and your user account, you may be able to connect (log in) to a server as:
• a registered user
Your administrator provided you with a personal user ID and password.
• a user who can autoregister
Your administrator set up the server to allow autoregistration. When you autoregister, you supply the user ID and password that you want to use for future connections. The next time you log in, you do so as a registered user.
• a guest user.
You do not require a user ID or password. Guests are generally more limited in what they can do than registered users.
Logging in as a registered user
To log in as a registered user:
1 Double-click or click (Linux) the FirstClass icon.
2 Update the FirstClass Login form.
3 Click Login to open your FirstClass Desktop.
Autoregistering
To autoregister:
1 Double-click or click (Linux) the FirstClass icon.
2 Update the FirstClass Login form.
For "User ID" and "Password", use the values that you want to use to connect to this server in the future.
3 Click Login.
4 Update the Autoregistration form.
5 Click Register.
6 Record your user ID and password from the confirmation form for future use.
7 Click one of the following:
• OK - opens your FirstClass Desktop
• Save - opens your FirstClass Desktop and saves your user ID and password in the settings file.
If you click Save, your user ID and password will be displayed on the FirstClass Login form the next time you choose this server. If you do not want this information displayed automatically for security reasons, click OK instead.
Logging in as a guest user
To log in as a guest user:
1 Double-click or click (Linux) the FirstClass icon.
2 Update the FirstClass Login form.
3 Click Login to open the guest account's FirstClass Desktop.
Logging in using an IMAP client
If you have a client that supports the IMAP4rev1 standard (Netscape IMAP client, or a Microsoft IMAP client such as Outlook Express), you can use this client to connect to a FirstClass server.
For instructions, see your client documentation.
Changing your password
If you are a registered user, your administrator provided you with a user ID and a password to give you access to a server. For security reasons, we recommend that you change the password to something only you know.
Make your password difficult to guess. Consider mixing numbers and letters. Do not use your own name or user ID, or any other easily guessed value, such as your birth date or the name of a family member or pet.
The maximum length of a password is 12 characters.
To change your password:
1 Log into the server for which you want to change your password.
2 Choose Collaborate > Change Password.
3 Update the Change Password form.
About settings files
FirstClass stores the information needed to connect to a server in a settings file. Settings files can also store resources used by FirstClass, such as forms, pictures, and sounds. In Windows, settings files always end in .fc.
FirstClass includes a home.fc settings file. If you downloaded FirstClass from your server and followed the instructions there, this settings file already knows your server's name.
In addition, your administrator may have provided you with a settings file that contains the necessary information for logging into your server. If this is the case, put this file in the Settings folder inside the FirstClass application folder.
Updating settings files
You may need to change connection information for an existing settings file, or incorporate changes from another settings file (such as one supplied by your administrator) into your own settings file.
To change connection information
1 Click Setup on the FirstClass Login form.
2 Update the Service Setup form.
To incorporate changes from another settings file
1 Log into FirstClass using the settings file that you want to update.
2 Double-click the settings file that contains the updates.
If this settings file is attached to a message, you can double-click it directly from the message.
3 Click Update at the Resource Updater form.
Note
If the settings file is large or you are on a slow connection, you may have to wait for this form to open.
Clearing resources from settings files
FirstClass can import a picture or form resource from your server as you need it; however, it will only do so if you do not already have a copy of the resource in your settings file.
If you know that there are updated resources on the server, and you want to import them, you must clear your old resources from your settings file. Clearing resources does not affect the connection information that is stored in your settings file.
To clear resources from your settings file:
1 Open the FirstClass Login form.
Note
Do not log in. You cannot clear resources from your settings file while you are connected to the server.
2 Make sure the settings file you want to clear is displayed at "Address".
3 Click Setup.
4 Click Flush Cache.
Clearing settings files from the FirstClass Login form
As you select and create various settings files, the list of files grows at "Address" on the FirstClass Login form. If this list becomes unwieldy, you can clear files from it. Cleared settings files remain in FirstClass' Settings folder, so you can still browse to select them.
To clear the settings file displayed at "Address", open the shortcut menu from it, then choose Clear.
Connecting to multiple servers
If you have access to multiple servers, you can connect to more than one at the same time. You will see a Desktop for each server to which you are connected.
To connect to multiple servers:
1 Log in as you normally do, choosing the settings file for the first server at "Address" on the FirstClass Login form.
2 Choose Collaborate > Connect to reopen the FirstClass Login form.
3 Log in as you normally do, choosing the settings file for the second server at "Address".
4 Repeat as many times as required.
Logging in with multiple user IDs
If you have multiple user IDs, or can autoregister, you can open multiple connections to the same server with different user IDs. You will see a Desktop for each user ID.
To log in with multiple user IDs:
1 Log into the server as you normally do, using the first user ID and password with which you want to connect.
2 Choose Collaborate > Connect to reopen the FirstClass Login form.
3 Log in using the second user ID and password with which you want to connect.
4 Repeat as many times as required.
Logging in from multiple computers
Your administrator may allow you to log into the same server using the same user ID and password from multiple computers.
If you are connected multiple times using the same user ID, and your administrator has limited the length of time you can connect per day, be aware that the time spent by all connections is added together and counted against your daily time allotment.
Example
If your first connection has been active for 30 minutes, and your second connection has been active for 15 minutes, you are considered to have used up 45 minutes of your daily time allotment.
To log in from multiple computers, simply log in as you normally do from each one.
Checking your connections
To see a list of all servers to which your computer is connected, and all user IDs used for these connections, choose Collaborate > List Connections.
The Connections List shows this information:
• Site Name - the server to which you are connected
• User ID - the user ID with which you are connected to this server
• Connect Time - the length of time you have been connected, in hh:mm:ss format
• Time Left - the length of time you have left before you will be automatically logged off.
Your administrator may have defined a maximum time that you can be connected per day. If a dash shows here, you do not have a daily connection time limit for this server and user ID.
• Items - the number of objects open for this connection.
To bring all windows for a particular connection to the foreground, in the order they were opened, double-click the connection in the list.
To end a connection, select it, then click Disconnect Selected.
To end all connections, click Disconnect All. This does not quit the FirstClass client. It is still active on your computer.
Disconnecting from a server
You can disconnect from a server in the following ways:
• to end your current connection, choose Collaborate > Disconnect, or close all open windows for this connection
• to end all connections and quit the FirstClass client, choose File > Exit (Windows), File > Quit (Mac OS, Linux), or FirstClass > Quit FirstClass (Mac OS X).
In addition, you can use the Connections List to disconnect from servers as well as check your connections.
Connecting automatically
You can connect to a server as soon as you start FirstClass, without having to update the FirstClass Login form. To do this, you must use a settings file configured for automatic login to start FirstClass.
Note
For security reasons, we recommend that you do this only in an environment where other users cannot access your computer.
To configure the settings file:
1 Start FirstClass.
2 Choose the settings file at "Address" on the FirstClass Login form, or type the name for a new settings file.
3 Click Setup.
4 Update the "User ID" and "Password" fields on the Service Setup form, if these are blank.
If this is a new settings file, also update the fields required for your connection.
5 Select "Log in automatically".
To use this settings file to connect automatically, double-click it or drag it over your FirstClass application.
You can disable automatic connection by pressing Control (Windows, Linux) or Option (Mac OS, Mac OS X) while you open the settings file.
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