A messaging software for your office or home Local Area Network.

LanToucher Instant Messenger is a useful instant messaging program for your office or home LAN (Local Area Network).

LanToucher Instant Messenger user-friendly interface and original features make LanToucher Instant Messenger the utility of choice for both home and enterprise instant messaging.

Being an efficient WinPopup and 'net send' command alternative, our full-featured instant messaging application offers you a much richer network communication environment, expanding the concept of conventional serverless messaging.

Based on peer-to-peer technology, LanToucher permits users to communicate directly with one another. No dedicated server or Internet connection is required.

LanToucher Instant Messenger is a complete serverless communication solution for your office and home LAN. It is compatible with Microsoft WinPopup (Windows 3.x/95/98/ME), Messenger service / 'net send' command (Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003), Samba smbclient (Unix/Linux), and a broad range of compatible instant messengers based on the standard SMB/CIFS protocol.

This feature completely manipulates the state of the Messenger service. Unlike other compatible instant messengers for intranets, LanToucher pauses the service at startup, and restarts it on exit so that you could still receive messages using the Messenger service before logging on, after logging off, and while at the Welcome screen (Windows XP).

These are the main features of this software

• This enables you to automatically forward all incoming messages to another user or computer on your network when you are away from your computer.
• Automatic Message Forwarding
• Instantaneous access to your predefined message templates and status/away messages by a hot key or two mouse clicks.
• User Macros and Status Messages
• vital events.
• With the original LanToucher sound notification scheme in conjunction with visual notification you will never miss your important messages and other
• Advanced sound and visual notification
• online or not, send messages to multiple contacts at once, or optionally ignore computers not in your ActiveList. From the ActiveList menu you can easily customize your contacts' settings just like picture/portrait, sounds, message font color and other contact-specific settings.
• It is pretty easy to add, remove your contacts, see whether a person is
• Contact List (ActiveList)
• While the default options should work fine for most users, LanToucher offers you dozens of various options you may want to adjust to suit your particular needs.
• Feature-rich user interface
• LanToucher Instant Messenger is compatible with TS and RDP allowing multiple Terminal Server users/Remote Desktop users to contact each other and other network users freely.
• Terminal Services/Remote Desktop support
• LanToucher works perfectly over any available network transport protocol (TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, or NetBEUI).
• Multiprotocol support
• attacks, viruses, and other security threats inherent to Internet messengers.
• LanToucher doesn't require an Internet connection to operate and doesn't provide a file transfer option. Therefore it is absolutely immune to hacker
• LAN-only messaging without file transfer ability
• LanToucher doesn't require a dedicated messaging server, so users can communicate directly with one another.
• True peer-to-peer (serverless) connectivity
• Unlike most fancy messaging applications, LanToucher needs less than 8 megabytes of RAM and generates minimal network traffic.
• Low memory and network bandwidth usage
• Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating ystems.
• LanToucher supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition,
• All 32-bit Windows versions support
• LanToucher is completely compatible with Messenger service / 'net send' (Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003), WinPopup messenger (Windows 3.x/95/98/Me), Samba smbclient (Unix/Linux) and a broad range of compatible instant messengers based on the standard SMB/CIFS protocol.
• Proven cross-platform compatibility

· Advanced Messenger service support (Windows NT4/2000/XP/Server 2003)

Requirements for this software

• Service (Windows NT4/2000/XP/Server 2003); Samba client (Unix/Linux)
• Another computer running LanToucher; WinPopup-compatible mailer; Messenger
• Network interface card connected to a Local Area Network
• 6 MB hard drive space
• 16 MB RAM (32 MB recommended)
• K6 or Pentium Processor

· DirectSound-compatible sound card recommended

Limitations of this software

· 40 launches

What's new in this release

· Terminal Services and Remote Desktop support; Fast User Switching support (Windows XP and Windows Vista)...