>Thanks for letting me know regarding the "@ip-address" problem. I take >it you have experienced something similar with this firmware?
Yup. Due to this I only run 8.2 on my phone, and use 7.4 on any other. You can roll back to 7.4 and be ok, don't use 7.5 as it has a bug relating to the phone registering to *. >The external directory is part of the cisco phones, nothing to do with >* really. The internal extensions I have set up all work fine with the >name using the callerid="Joe Blow" <1234> method you suggest. The plan >was to add customers phone numbers to the directory.xml file so it >comes up with their names when they call. At the moment it still jeust >says their phone number whether they are in directory.xml or not. Oh, ok, I guess I didn't understand you. The directory.xml file does not affect the caller ID that * sends to the phone, nor, AFAIK does the phone try to match any number in the directory.xml file when it receives an incoming call. So, actually, I think my first suggestion applies. You would need to tie the data in the directory.xml into data available to your *'s dialplan. This would be done via a database which would generate the directory.xml file, and also be available to do some sort of caller ID lookup from your extensions.conf, possibly with an AGI script. I don't know if this would help, but take a look at open79xxdir - it is a sourceforge project. Perhaps you could use something in that to do this. I don't know how easy it will be to do, either. I don't know much about the details of what I just explained, I may even be way off base. But I do know enough that I think it is beyond my abilities. Good luck. Or, a much easier way: statically write your directory.xml file. Also, whenever you add an entry to directory.xml, also add an entry into the asterisk DB, and lookup the CID using that. Sincerely, Brent A. Torrenga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Torrenga Engineering, Inc. 907 Ridge Road Munster, Indiana 46321-1771 +1 219 836 8918 x325 Voice +1 219 836 1138 Facsimile www.torrenga.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users