Excellent forum topic – helped me out a lot:
http://www.trixbox.org/forums/vendor-moderated-forums/sangoma/crackle-line
January 9, 2009
January 8, 2009
Sip, Netopia, & Trixbox… One big happy family
…Or not so happy.
After spending WAY too long trying to get my sip phones to register on a remote Trixbox, I figured out that the problem was due to my local Netopia router/modem from ATT messing with my SIP traffic. Here is the solution:
Telnet to your Netopia and:
The setting is not in the web gui. You have to telnet into the
router, then type. Each line is a new command.
configure
set ip sip-passthrough off
save
exit
Restart
On the Netopia 4622xlt
Telnet into the device
Use the arrow keys to highlight ‘quick menu’ and press “ctrl-n”
That brings you to the console.
type:
ip nat alg sip enable no
save
exit
restart
That info came courtesy of the following website: http://www.junctionnetworks.com/knowledgebase/onsip/devices/router-configuration/netopia
December 25, 2008
Blackberry just Stops receiving emails from Enterprise Server
Well my Blackberry, which I love, just quit cold. Everything was working flawlessly, then one evening at 6:15 PM, it stopped. No telltale errors in the event log would explain it.
I happen to have a good friend and client who had just been through the same problem a couple days ago. I called him and he said to go to Options->Advanced Options->Service Book (0n the phone) and delete every service book that started with “Desktop”.
After you do that, then you go to the BES, and resend the service books for that user. That fixed my problem.
Interesting that we both had the same problem within a couple days.
Ok, I’m happy now – back to Christmas celebration.
LP
December 19, 2008
Samsung PBX Anyone?
Ok, I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to pass IP Traffic (UPD & TCP) over a Watchguard II firewall to a Samsung PBX MGI & MCP card.
If anyone you know has experience with this, then we are going to have to renew our friendship if I don’t hear from them in the next 12 hours! 
UPDATE
I did get this resolved by creating a one to one NAT (they had a block of public IP’s) and then allowing traffic on the ports that needed it. Don’t ask me what fixed it!
LP
December 13, 2008
Press This WordPress 2.7
It is really cool… But when I tried to use it I got this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: htmlspecialchars_decode() in /mypath/icsblog/wp-admin/press-this.php on line 554
So…
Open the referenced file (press-this.php) and add this function at the top of the file:
function htmlspecialchars_decode($string,$style=ENT_COMPAT) { $translation = array_flip(get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS,$style)); if($style === ENT_QUOTES){ $translation['''] = '''; } return strtr($string,$translation); }
Thanks to http://www.tacticaltechnique.com/web-development/php4-friendly-htmlspecialchars_decode/ for providing the function!!
And that should fix the problem!
December 12, 2008
“The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded”
Here is the KB on the problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215/en-us
And here is a great post on resolution:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/130095-user-profile-service-failed-logon-user-profile-cannot-loaded.html
I hate the way Vista handles profiles. It is a pain.
December 11, 2008
September 30, 2008
Vista, Group Policy, and Server 2003
I was trying to figure out how in the world to manange Group Policy for Vista machines from a Vista Machine, but with a 03 domain controller.
It should have been simple, and I should have known, but here’s the trick:
Download the RSAT (Remote Server Administration Toolkit)
Now go to the control panel and go to Programs and Software. Choose Enable or Disable Windows Components on the left hand pane. Scroll through the list until you see Remote Server Administration Tools, and choos Group Policy Management in that list. Apply the changes and then hit the Windows Key + R to bring up the run box. Type GPMC.MSC and hit Enter and you should be in business!
This blog has some good details: http://n3ilb.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/vista-group-policy-in-a-server-2003-active-directory/
August 22, 2008
Trixbox Changes
Well… According to my adventures this evening, this morning or whatever it is by now… You can take Trixbox from an old version to a new version complete with moving it to new hardware. It isn’t too big of a deal at all… It only took me about 6 hours.
I actually ended up deleting all the extensions in Trix and recreating them. Don’t ask me why it wouldn’t work, but I couldn’t get any of the phones to ring though they all rang out fine.
Another issue that I encountered was that some of the voicemail files that were transferred from the old system were transferred with the format of filename.WAV. For some reason, possibly due to the upgraded Trix core, it is now looking for filename.wav. So, of course, when it tries to find the file, it bombs out and hangs up your call.
Anyway, now I have triple the ram that I had before, so hopefully that will take care of some of the complaints I’ve been getting regarding my phone system.
Ok, going to bed!
Now, it’s my turn…
I buy new computers all the time…
But it seems like I just never break down and do it for myself.
Well, tonight, with my wife’s approval, I made the leap.
Here’s the specs:
Dell Precision T3400
Intel Core2Due E8500, 3.16GHz, 13336MB L2, 525W
4GB, 800MHz, DDR2 ECC SDRAM Memory, 4X1GB
USB Enhanced Multimedia English Keyboard
Dell UltraSharp 2009FP,Wide Flat Panel w/Height AdjustableStand,20.0 Inch
nVidia,Quadro FX 570,256MB dual DVI, Graphics Card
80GB SATA,10K RPM 3.0Gb/s 2.5 inch,SATA2 16MB Data Burst Cache
Windows XP 64 SP2 with WindowsVista Ultimate 64 Edition License
Internal USB Media card reader19:1
16X DVD+/-RW
3 Yr Warranty
Purchase is NOT intended for resell ;0)
Ok, now hurry and get here!
All the best,
Luke
Update….
For added effect, I thought I would mention that in the hundred’s of new computers that I’ve sold or hooked up this is my first new computer – excluding my laptop. I feel kind-of proud of that fact for some reason…