If it's a law firm, they are probably using Windows. I believe the initial post mentioned they were using Counterpath as well. BTW, if you are using X-ten, you can script a launcher application which can perform your provisioning download/authentication and provision the client by setting the appropriate registry entries. The part that sucks with Counterpath is that it's difficult to generate the encrypted string they use to store the password in the registry key. The work around is to generate sample passwords and capture those from the registry. Use the plain text password in your sip service and set the client to the encrypted string with the launcher script.
-------------------------------------------------- Salvatore Giudice [EMAIL PROTECTED] VoIP Security Training, LLC http://VoIPSecurityTraining.com 848 N. Rainbow Blvd. #1676 Las Vegas, NV 89107 Phone: (702) 979-2906 Fax: (212) 279-2906 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:51 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central provisioning? On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:21:54PM -0400, Michelle Dupuis wrote: > Tzafrir, > > I don't know if you do many large deployments, but this would be a godsend! > We did an install for a large law firm with all lawyers wanting softphones > (eyebeam) on their laptops. Centrally pushing out the install executable > was easy, setting up the parameters for each user was time consuming (i.e. > expensive). With hard phones, we setup a TFTP server for each phone to pull > config on bootup. We've even built a couple of tools to build config files > (text ini files) dynamically from a database. This has shaved up to 8 hours > off a large install. > > I think you're confusing installation with configuration. Without ascii > config files (or a tool from the mfg to create binary config files from a > script), each soft device must manually configured. Can you name a decent Linux soft phone worth its salt for which you cannot generate such a provisioning system in 1 hour? It would probably be custom and site-specific. The generic provisioning systems used for soft phones require way too much trust on the provisioning server and are lacking on the security side. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir _______________________________________________ --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 _______________________________________________ --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