[Asterisk-Users] Call ID Mini-Popup?

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 17:05 -0300, Thomas Hutton wrote:
> Question: Does anyone know of a lightweight popup method to put an
> incoming call ID string on a client machine?  Something as simple as
> winpopup would work great- for example: I have a call coming in on Zap/4
> but the phone on Zap/4 doesn't have a call ID display.  Could I somehow
> configure Asterisk to call a script that uses a SMB winpopup (or other
> method) out to a specified computer sitting next to the phone?
> 
> Thanks very much for any ideas, or knowledge of something already in
> existence.

Well there is a system command where you can shell out and issue a CLI
command from the dialplan. From there you can look at what your options
are such as smbclient.

Maybe a moment running through the man page is in order. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>