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- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 0 About the Project
- 0.1 Please Donate!!!
- 0.2 Project Manager
- 0.3 Handbook & Documentation Editor
- 0.4 Handbook Wishlist (Please enter your requests here)
- 0.5 The problem with writing/editing this Handbook.
- 0.6 Everyone is encouraged to edit this Handbook.
- 0.7 Liability Disclaimer
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 1 Introduction to Asterisk@Home
- 1.1 What is Asterisk
- 1.2 What is Asterisk@Home
- 1.3 Current list of software in Asterisk@Home.
- 1.4 Licensing for Asterisk@Home
- 1.5 Licensing for the Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki
- 1.6 Please do not contact Digium for support.
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 2 Installation of Asterisk@Home
- 2.1 Hardware Requirements
- 2.2 Install from an .ISO
- 2.3 Setting up your Time Zone and/or Keybord Layout
- 2.4 Install to an existing CentOS 4.2 system
- 2.5 Setting up your router/firewall to work with Asterisk@Home
- 2.5.1 What is NAT?
- 2.5.2 What is a STUN Server?
- 2.5.3 What is SIP?
- 2.5.3.1 Setting up your router/firewall so Asterisk@Home can communicate with a VOIP Provider via SIP
- 2.5.3.2 Setting a remote router/firewall so your remote SIP phones can communicate with your Asterisk@Home Server via SIP
- 2.5.4 What is IAX?
- 2.5.4.1 Setting up your router/firewall so Asterisk@Home can communicate with a VOIP Provider or another Asterisk server via IAX through a NAT
- 2.5.4.2 Setting a remote router/firewall so your remote IAX phones can communicate with your Asterisk@Home Server via IAX through a NAT
- 2.5.5 How to deal with a constantly changing internet IP address?
- 2.5.5.1 What is DNS?
- 2.5.5.2 What is Dynamic DNS?
- 2.5.5.3 How do I get Dynamic DNS to work?
- 2.5.5.3.1 Dynamic DNS with router that has DynDNS client built in?
- 2.5.5.3.2 Dynamic DNS with DynDNS client running on Asterisk@Home?
- 2.5.5.4 How do I use Dynamic DNS with Asterisk@Home
- 2.6 Putting your Asterisk@Home Server directly on the internet
- 2.7 How do I know what versions of software is installed on my Asterisk@Home Server?
- 2.8 Modifying the A@H branding to something more Corporate friendly.
- 2.9 Quick Set Up guide. This is to assist with re installs
- 2.9.1 Securing Asterisk
- 2.9.2 Rebuilding Zaptel drivers
- 2.9.3 NAT configuration
- 2.9.4 Trunk configurations (IAX2/SIP with Telasip)
- 2.9.5 Outbound routing
- 2.9.6 Auto Attendant configurations
- 2.9.7 Updating Asterisk
- 2.9.8 VMWare Tools installation and configuration
- 2.9.9 Backing up, migrating and restoring
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 3 Securing your Asterisk@Home server
- 3.1 Giving your Asterisk@Home Server a static IP address
- 3.2 Changing your default CentOS Password
- 3.3 Changing your default AMP Password
- 3.4 Changing your default FOP Password
- 3.5 Changing your default MeetMe Password
- 3.6 Changing your default System Mail Password
- 3.7 Changing your default Sugar CRM Password
- 3.8 Securing the ALT-F9 into the Asterisk CLI console #9 feature/security risk
- 3.9 Placing a password on the Asterisk@Home Splash page
- 3.10 Changing your default MySQL Password
- 3.11 Changing your host name
- 3.12 Updating patches to CentOS
- 3.13 Backup and restore of Asterisk@Home
- 3.13.1 Backup
- 3.13.2 Restore
- 3.13.3 Backup Storage
- 3.14 Install APCUPSD UPS Battery backup monitor service
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 4 Using AMP to Configure your Asterisk@Home Server
- 4.1 What is AMP?
- 4.2 How does AMP work?
- 4.3 How to Log into AMP
- 4.3 Configuring an extension
- 4.4 Configuring a trunk for outbound and inbound calls
- 4.5 Configuring Outbound Routing
- 4.6 Configuring Incoming Calls
- 4.7 Configuring the digital receptionist
- 4.7.1 How to connect a caller to a default extension when one is not chosen
- 4.8 Trunking two Asterisk@Home Servers
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 5 PSTN interface cards
- 5.1 FXO Cards
- 5.1.1 Digium Wildcard X100P OEM FXO PCI Card
- 5.2.1 Cisco / Linksys / Sipura SPA-3000 FXO/FXS Device
- 5.2 FXS Cards
- 5.2.1 Digium TDM400P FXO/FXS Card
- 5.3 T1/PRI Cards
- 5.4 ISDN Cards
- 5.4.1 ISDN BRI Cards
- 5.4.1.1 ISDN BRI Cards with HFC chipset
- 5.4.1.2 ISDN BRI Cards with HFC chipset
- 5.4.2 ISDN PRI Cards
- 5.4.2.1 ISDN PRI Cards, Digium
- 5.4.2.2 ISDN PRI Cards, Sangoma
- 5.4.1 ISDN BRI Cards
- 5.5 Channel banks
- 5.1 FXO Cards
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 6 VOIP Service Providers
- 6.1 Free World Dialup (FWD)
- 6.2 Free World Dialup OUT (FWD)
- 6.3 VoicePulse
- 6.4 Sixtel
- 6.5 VoipJet
- 6.6 MyNetfone - AUSTRALIA
- 6.7 Telasip
- 6.8 Exgn LLC
- 6.9 Gizmo Project / SIPphone
- 6.10 Iristel
- 6.11 Voxee
- 6.12 Gafachi
- 6.13 Acanac
- 6.14 Stanaphone
- 6.15 Vbuzzer
- 6.16 Broadvoice
- 6.17 WENGO
- 6.18 QuantumVoice
- 6.19 TalkLITE.NET
- 6.20 Vitelity Communications LLC
- 6.21 Vonage Business Plus and Vonage Softphone
- 6.22 Teliax Inc
- 6.23 Callcentric
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 7 VOIP Phones
- 7.1 Soft phones
- 7.1.1 X-Ten Lite
- 7.1.2 sipXphone
- 7.1.3 Express Talk
- 7.1.4 Yate
- 7.1.5 Idefisk
- 7.2 Hard phones
- 7.2.1 Cisco 7960/7940
- 7.2.1.1 Setting up a Cisco phone step by step
- 7.2.2 Polycom
- 7.2.2.1 Why choose Polycom VOIP Phones?
- 7.2.2.2 How to get Polycom Firmware and SIP Updates
- 7.2.2.3 Polycom and NATS. Welcome to hell (at least as of 01/20/06)
- 7.2.2.4 How to use Provisioning (Central Boot Server) to deploy a fleet of Polycoms
- 7.2.2.4.1 Contents of the Polycom SIP update & Bootrom Zip file
- 7.2.2.4.2 Create an FTP site and configure your phone to connect to it
- 7.2.2.4.3 Updating the SIP Application and the Bootrom
- 7.2.2.4.4 What are those MACADDRESS-*.log files in my FTP Polycom root directory?
- 7.2.2.4.5 Master Configuration Files
- 7.2.2.4.6 Application Configuration Files
- 7.2.2.4.7 Contact Directory Files
- 7.2.2.5 Suggestions on how to setup Polycom File Provisioning
- 7.2.2.5.1 Suggestions on editing the sip.cfg file
- 7.2.2.5.2 Suggestions on editing the MACADDRESS.cfg file
- 7.2.2.5.3 Suggestions on editing the x1001.cfg file
- 7.2.2.5.4 Suggestions on Speed Dial and Company Wide Contacts Directory
- 7.2.2.6 Polycom Cheat Sheet
- 7.2.2.7 Please put in a product enhancement request at the Polycom Site
- 7.2.1 Cisco 7960/7940
- 7.1 Soft phones
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 8 Configuring and using Asterisk@Home extra features
- 8.1 Conferencing
- 8.1.1 External access to conferences
- 8.2 Weather Forecast Dialing
- 8.3 DHCP server
- 8.4 Flash Operator Panel (FOP)
- 8.4.1 Hang-up on a Call
- 8.4.2 Transfering a Call
- 8.4.3 Initiating a Call
- 8.4.4 How to Create a Conference
- 8.5 FTP server (vsftpd)
- 8.6 Cisco XML Services
- 8.7 Music On Hold (mpg123)
- 8.8 FAX to E-mail
- 8.8.1 Fax support (SpanDSP)
- 8.9 xPL
- 8.10 Sugar CRM
- 8.11 Festival
- 8.12 Voicemail
- 8.13 Connecting to your CentOS Command Line Remotely (Using SSH)
- 8.14 Open A2Billing
- 8.15 Bluetooth Presence Detection
- 8.16 Setting up your NTP Time Server
- 8.17 Changing *60 to give the exact time
- 8.18 Sendmail
- 8.19 DUNDi
- 8.1 Conferencing
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 9 Software that is not installed with Asterisk@Home
- 9.1 Click-to-Dial using Microsoft Outlook and AstTapi
- 9.1.1 Download AstTapi and install it
- 9.1.2 Modifying the "Manager_Custom.conf" file in A@H (don't panic! this is easy!)
- 9.1.3 Configuring AstTapi in outlook
- 9.2 H.323 add-on
- 9.3 Webmin - Web Based Linux Management
- 9.4 How to use Shorewall Firewall to protect your A@H Server
- 9.4.1 What is Shorewall
- 9.4.2 How do I download and Install Shorewall?
- 9.4.3 How do I configure Shorewall
- 9.5 How to use IPCOP firewall to protect the A@H Server
- 9.6 The definitive guide to Sound Card Installation A@H 2.0-2.19.7
- 9.7 The definitive guide to Sound Card Installation, configuration and usage with A@H 2.2+
- 9.8 AsteriDex
- 9.9 AsteriDex II
- 9.10 Qmail
- 9.11 Web Admin Interface Upgrade (Admin-UI v2.0)
- 9.12 NetMgr Network Bandwidth Monitoring
- 9.1 Click-to-Dial using Microsoft Outlook and AstTapi
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 10 CentOS Tips, tricks and command line help
- 10.1 Helpful commands to know in CentOS
- 10.2 What if I use Non-Standard Hardware?
- 10.2.1 VIA EPIA 800 mhz board (586 board)
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 11 Chapter 11 Asterisk End User's Manual
- 11.1 Asterisk's Basic Phone Feature List
- 11.2 Administrative Phone Feature List
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 12 Web Resources
- Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 13 Consultants and Consulting Companies that support A@H
- 13.1 Coalescent Systems
- 13.2 Rob Thomas
- 13.3 Anteil, Inc.
- 13.4 Baldwin Technology Solutions Inc.
- 13.5 BESTEK - Computer Retail & Solutions
- 13.6 Dimi Telecom
- 13.7 Enhanced Technology Solutions
- 13.8 Enterux Solutions
- 13.9 HealthTech
- 13.10 Intelegent Networks
- 13.11 Jonathan Roper
- 13.12 LanXperts, Inc.
- 13.13 MemonConsulting
- 13.14 OFB Consulting
- 13.15 Pibix
- 13.16 Sound Choice Communications LLC
- 13.17 Tech Data Pros
- 13.18 TightWire
- 13.19 Centritech Solutions
- 13.20 Net Primates Ltd
- 13.21 ServicePointe
- 13.22 SEAQ
- 13.23 GearyTech Inc.
- 13.24 Conexys SRL
- 13.25 Cardiff IT Support Ltd
- 13.26 Binary Systems, Inc.
- 13.27 Pbxnw.com
- 13.28 VisionVoIP Communications Inc.
- 13.29 Inland I.T. Solutions

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How to: windows printer, file sharing, AMP won't answer up.
(1) AMP use to come up on my windows systerm using Internet Exporer, but for some reason it won't respons now. I have restarted everything at least once and rebuilt some things. The right processes seem to be running in the Linux box. What is wrong? Do I have to rebuild the entire asterisk@home system from scratch?
(2) What is the easiest way to accomplish file transfers between my windows 2k system and the asterisk@home box?
(3) What is the easiest way to print files on the asterisk@home box to a printer attached to a windows computer.
All computers are on the same subnet but asterisk@home is not a member of the domain.
Any help on these issues would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
phones cannot connect ,they can ring each other when at asterisk@home
I have a new problem ,i hope that some one has some solutions
the PBX server is running Asterisk@Home-2.2 the sip listening port is 8891 on the server
the SIP phones registered in the server can ring other SIP phones registered at the same server but when the phone is picked up nothing can be heard i.e media transfer dosent occur between two phones,
the asteriskathome server says that it is attenpting a native bridge between two servers but no media transfer occurs ,
Interestingly when the server and phones are on same Lan things go perfect i.e no problem occurs ,but when the server is given a Live IP given to me by ISP then phones cannot talk ,they can just ring ,each other
The two Phones are on a same LAN and can connect to any IP of the world by the given gateway
The two phones work perfect when the server (located far away on the internet) is running normal asterisk in ,but when the server is running asterisk@home then phones can just ring each other ,cannot talk
Asterisk@home 2.5 VMware Image
I have made a VMware image for Asterisk@Home 2.5. It is compiled and ready to use. You can find information on download and installation <a href="http://serge.mankovski.com/voip/asteriskhome-25-vmware">instructions at this location.</a>
Image is available in a torrent form for now. It is 1.1Gb rar file. I will add direct download option when I figure out how to host it in a way that download traffic does not kill my quota at hosting company.
Have fun
Re: New Asterisk@Home site
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And to all that has contributed, nice done and I look forward to do more in 2006 so ...
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
/M
New Asterisk@Home site
I have created this site : http://www.asteriskathome.org.in/ and have installed Drupal which would allow a better community building around this very interesting project.
Ginel, I also have created a handbook section at http://www.asteriskathome.org.in/handbook/ , which would allow us to create the handbook in a much better way rather then loading the entire page at one shot (I m still half way creating the entire book over there, so any help from people around would be appreciated)
Looking forward to collaborate with the community,
Thanks & Regards,
Mitul Limbani,
Founder & CEO,
Enterux Solutions,
The Enterprise Linux Company (TM),
www.enterux.com
Asterisk@Home on Virtual PC
Nice to see such a polished and fully featured bundle for rapid deployment.
Jason.
Re 4.7.1 Dig Recep
-Ginel