I am a newbie to VOIP on Linux, and find it very confusing attempting to set up Ekiga as my first Linux VOIP application. I have successfully used VOIP on that other operating system for some time, and without any drama.
Iason, as you suggest, I attempted to register with ekiga.net but that failed. I am able to register with eugw.ast.diamondcard.us which is the default entry automatically put there when setting up the account. I am not getting the "Security check failed" message any more. (However see below - I am getting that message calling a local number). When I call [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get a repeated long tone. I attempted to call a real phone number of the form: sip:0061999999999 where the 9's are replaced with the local number, the 61 is the country code, and 00 the access code. However this terminates immediately with the message "User not found". I take a look at the drop down box and "@ekiga.net" has automatically been added!!!??? And sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] also immediately terminates in "User not found". I am using the CVS version of Ekiga. I've done some more checking, and discovered on the diamondcard.us site that one should add @usgw.ast.diamondcard.us to the end of phone numbers!? The Ekiga help page says "you can simply use sip:003210444555 to call a real phone number". There is no mention of an "@..." suffix! Do I need one? Anyhow, when I call sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] whith the 9's replaced with the local number, I get the message "Security check failed". There seems to be some overlap in the meanings and uses of username/account and password/pin. Could you please clarify the difference between username and account, and when to use each; and please clarify the difference between password and pin, and when to use each. In short, perhaps a clear step by step detail of how to set up my account would not go astray. For the sake of clarity of communication: Simply put, what I am attempting to do is this: I have successfully setup a free Ekiga account, and tested by calling the sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] account. All fine so far. I attempted to set up an account with Engin, but without success. So I figure I'll use the Ekiga PC-to-Phone Account (thinking that should be well tested and smooth sailing). I use the link provided in Ekiga under the Tools menu. I set up the account. I receive an emailed receipt for payment. I also receive a signup thank you message containing login name, account id, instructions to get pin, and instructions to reply. I reply to message. I receive a confirmation message saying payment for $10.00 has been verified and approved. I enter the account and password in the PC-to-Phone settings. There is a new account in the account list, however the registration failed. So I enter pin where password is asked for! It registers. However I am not able to do anything with it. (See above). Please help. I'm confused. On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 21:13 +0300, Iason Antipariotis wrote: > Don Malcolm wrote: > > I am able to successfully call the test number sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > > free ekiga account. > > > > I have set up a new ekiga PC-to-phone account, and get the message: > > "Security check failed" when I attempt to call the test number. > > > > > > Register to ekiga.net with the new ekiga account and then call > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;) > > Regards, > > Iason > _______________________________________________ > GnomeMeeting-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
