Re: [Ekiga-list] ekiga sip account configuration assistant

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 16/03/11 19:24, mattes wrote:
> Installed ekiga-3.2.7 last nite on fedora 13.
> The installation is guided by the configuration assistant.
>
> To test ekiga with SIP I created an account at ekiga.net.
>
> The setup/account did not work. Calling the echo test contact failed with
> 'could not register unauthorized'.
>
> Here the initial account setup:
>
>    name:                ekiga.net BROKEN
>    registrar:           ekiga.net
>    user:                mattes1501
>    authentication user: sip:mattes1501 ekiga net
>    password:            ***
>    timeout:             3600
>
> Looks good to me, but nogo.
> So after tinkering for a while, i ran across a picture in the
> help documentation, that showed different account setup.
>
> I was able to setup "add an ekiga.net" account which only asks for the
> username and password.  This account worked immediately. echo test works
> fine now:
>
> Looking at the new account information it list the following:
>
>    name:                ekiga.net2
>    registrar:           ekiga.net
>    user:                mattes1501
>    authentication user: mattes1501
>    password:            ***
>    timeout:             3600
>
> I think it initially went wrong on the initial setup.
> I must have put in the 'mattes1501 ekiga net' as a user name.
> Then later I changed it to 'mattes1501', not knowing how that relates to
> the 'authentication user' entry.
>
> Hope that helps to other to figure it out quicker.
>
> Maybe something could be done in the app (configuration assistant) to
> avoid such mistakes right from the getgo.

Thank you.

I think this is fixed with commit 
http://git.gnome.org/browse/ekiga/commit/?id=8fbe4d19450f0, which adds 
tooltips to various fields in dialogs.  Look at 
http://git.gnome.org/browse/ekiga/diff/lib/engine/components/opal/opal-account.cpp?id=8fbe4d1945 
for example for the tooltips.

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