Patent ID: 6865679

Claim:
A method for accessing a control system in a server from a client, wherein the control system includes a logon program to enable the client to use a terminal emulation program to logon to the server to access a client process executing in the server to perform control system operations, further comprising: requesting, with the client, a security context for the client including authorization to allow the client to access control system functions in the server, wherein the security context is associated with a client credential information including access for which the client is authorized; impersonating the client, by the server, to generate the security context; returning, with the server, the generated security context to the client; transmitting, with a client program executing in the client, a control system command and the security context to access the control system in the server; based on the control system command, reconfiguring a printer object, wherein the requesting, the impersonating, the returning, the transmitting, and the reconfiguring are performed without using the logon program to enable the client to logon to the server.