SiptheeSkype Now SipToSis

Well my phone system had a little crash and I had to set my machine and ATA up once again. In the process I thought I'd take a look and see what updates SitptheeSkype had......

Well I found out the name changed again and is now called SipToSis. The name change is not that big of a deal, what is a big deal is how easy SipToSis is to set up.

NOTE: SipToSis now has a GNU GPL: $2.50 distribution fee. Believe me its worth it...and more.

Now just because it had a distribution fee does not say you couldn't distribute it yourself...after all it is under the GPL.

I actually wish I could have placed an additional $15 or so to the basket at check out to give a little gratitude for all the work that has gone into this!

So lets get with it!

Well you need the normal files....Java 1.5 JRE or higher, Skype, and SipToSis.

Basically; once you have java and Skype installed all you do is extract SipToSis files to a location and execute the SipToSis_win.bat file. From there allow jave to interact with skype by going to Tools-Options-Advance and click Manage other programs access to Skype (On the bottom). From there click allow.

The full process is well documented here, and gives you plenty of possibilities!

As for the dial plan....You may want to take a look over here.... and here... Once you have your dialplan in place take a look at the section over here that says "A word about the dialplan". Thats how I have mine set up, and it works nice!

If you have any questions...feel free to drop me a line.

MV2120 and 5150 ssh user update

So I had to reboot my MV and found it was a bit of a pain to re-establish the ssh users. So the quick way to fix the problem after a reboot is as follows.

When you go to edit the /etc/passwd you will see something like this
joeuser:x:502:502:Linux User,,,:/:/bin/nologin

You will need to edit it so it looks more like this.
joeuser:x:502:502:Linux User,,,/:/share/1000/joeuser:/bin/sh

Not like in the original post over here. (Original joeuser:x:502:502:Linux User,,,:/share/1000/joeuser:/bin/sh) notice the extra / in User,,,/:/share

I have updated the original post as of 4/27/09 to fix the problem.

Once you have done that you will need to set the password for the user using the following command.

passwd username (username being the users password you want to set.)

Sorry for the mess up.