Re: [Ekiga-list] H.323 gatekeeper registration with extension and alias

[Thierry Simonnet <thierry simonnet esiee fr>]

Using Ekiga with Polycom (or Tandberg) system is possible but without all functions.
If your gatekeeper handles SIP, or (SIP and H323) it is possible to use personnal accounts and register to gate keeper. Depending on Polycom software version, it is necessary to have a first h323 connection to initialize the bridge (!!!)
For H323 only gatekeeper, there are 2 way to configure it :

1. transparent : authorize all clients. The you can access to videoconferencing with any client (using h323:<gatekeeper_IP_address>)
2. with accounting : password is not managed by client, then leave passward blank. You can connect clients using h323:<account>@<gatekeeper_IP_address>

If you have an IP or a test account, I will test it.

Best regards

Thierry

Le 19/11/2013 23:30, Robert White a écrit :

Thierry & Eugen

Thank you for responding to my questions

Thiery - I want to have the Ekiga client register to our Polycom H.323 gatekeeper and so far I have not been able to get it to do that

When I use a Polycom Real Presence Desktop client I simply specify in the Polycom client the H.323 gatekeeper address, H.323 extension and H.323 alias

How to I configure the Ekiga client for H.323 gatekeeper address, H.323 extension and H.323 alias ? [note our gatekeeper does not support SIP]

When I configure an account it does not give me those options and asks for a username and password

Eugen Dedu kindly advised to "try adding a random user and password, quit ekiga, and use gconf-editor to remove user and password from your account; these are found in apps->ekiga->protocols" but I cannot see on my windows client a gconf-editor program or apps->ekiga->protocols location

I look forward to your responses

Regards

Robert

New Zealand

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Thierry Simonnet <thierry simonnet esiee fr> wrote:

Hello,

You can use your Polycom gatekeeper with any SIP account.
You only need to compose the calling address using h323:Polycom_IP_Address to access your service.
Unfortunately you can't use address book because, when using a h323 contact it complete the address with the user sip domain. Then you need to compose by hand the Polycom address. It is also impossible to use history :-(

It works for my company, for Polycom and Tandberg devices, but also for Polycom test addresses all around the word.

Hope this helps

Best regards

Thierry

Le 16/11/2013 13:31, Eugen Dedu a écrit :

On 15/11/13 23:23, Robert White wrote:

Hello

I want to register my Ekiga 4.0.1. client to a Polycom VBP 5300 H.323
gatekeeper which requires *no userid or password* and provide also provide
to the gatekeeper a H.323 alias and extension [E.164]

I assume I create a h.323 account in the Ekiga client but this does not
allow me to specify a H.323 extension or an alias furthermore requires a
username and password which I don't need to use

Is there a different way to do this ?

As far as I understand from the code, ekiga creates an alias from the user name, the one shown in the second page of the assistant.

As for user and password: try adding a random user and password, quit ekiga, and use gconf-editor to remove user and password from your account; these are found in apps->ekiga->protocols.

Tell us if it works.

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