Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for managing remote transmission destinations for a fax/scan device connected—directly or indirectly—to a network. When a fax/scan device is set to a “Receive Fax to PC” or “Scan-To PC” mode, a master host identifier that uniquely identifies a master host on the network is stored at the master host and at the fax/scan device. If another network computer attempts to supercede an existing master host for the fax/scan device, it is prevented from doing so because of the presence of the master host identifier in the fax/scan device. When the “Receive Fax to PC” or “Scan-To PC” mode is cleared, the master host identifier is also cleared. Only then may a network computer configure itself as a master host for the fax/scan device.