I haven't played with users and devices under freepbx for more than two years now so what I say can be a bit outdated, correct me if I'm wrong Alex. Even separating users and devices wont be much use, since it's still a one to one relationship in freepbx, you can temporarily use different phones, but you do that by "logging in and out" of them as a user and they are "dedicated" to you for the time you are logged into them . So you will be stuck with using ring groups regardless.
So to answer your question, with my outdated knowledge, you can't do it without using a ring group or follow me. The only way you could is if for freepbx the dialplan had different contexts for different users, or more generally differentiated by something depending on the protocol, eg, a SIP domain. Actually it would be much more flexible to have VoIP identities seperate from the "extension pool" as I mentioned above, and apart from call parking this would allow a multinanted pbx. In case you want to try out the user/device mode of freepbx with users and extensions associated one to one with each other yet dynamically configurable here is a small how to: just go under /etc/amportal.conf and add this line to it: AMPEXTENSIONS=deviceanduser Then you go to /usr/src/freepbx/ and run this command: ./apply_conf.sh On 10/18/06, Tony Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am trying to setup a phone system using multiple Polycom 501's and 601's. I would like to have some of the phones configured with individual extensions (that I know how to do). I also want some of the phones to be communal where each line identifies an individual person. With the 601's I can have 5 lines with associated names displayed. My question is, can you register an extension twice and get it to ring at the same time on both devices? Or do i have to create multiple extensions for each person and put them in a ringgroup (i am using trixbox)
