[Asterisk-Users] FW: auto provision of IP501 polycom

[Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC]

We manually change the username on the phones, for example 'pbx' -- 
since you can do this before the phone contacts the boot server, it's 
easy and fairly quick.  The phones get the ftp server info from dhcpd, 
but they use the username and password I've told them to.

Moj

Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> I have the same problem.  I'm running CentOS, which comes with vsftpd, 
> do you know of anyway to do this using vsftpd?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
> Noah Miller wrote:
>> Hi Again Damon - 
>>
>> I just remembered that the FTP server setup can be tricky, too.  The default
>> username has capitalized letters, and this doesn't work with a lot of FTP
>> servers.  I had to use ProFTPd to get it done.  I created a user account
>> called plcmspip, and added the following to /etc/proftpd.conf (or wherever
>> you choose to put your config file):
>>
>> UserAlias   PlcmSpIp plcmspip
>>
>>
>> - Noah
>>
>>
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>> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:34:31 -0500
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>> Cc: <damon at suburbanbroadband.net>
>> Conversation: auto provision of IP501 polycom
>> Subject: Re: auto provision of IP501 polycom
>>
>> Hi Damon - 
>>
>>> Has anyone been able to get the IP501 to discover the FTP server IP
>>> address (via dhcp or dns) and download 100% of the config from a
>>> provisioning server?
>> Sure, works great!  I'm not sure if you got the TFTP config from the
>> gentleman who suggested it, but this is really dependent on what DHCP server
>> you are using.  For example, we use Cisco routers, and the option to add is:
>>
>>     option 66 ascii "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
>>
>> where the xxx's are the IP address (I don't think DNS names will work).
>>
>>
>> ISC's DHCP server is a little different:
>>
>>     option  tftp-server-name "XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX";
>>
>> Yes, it should be tftp-server-name, even if you use FTP (or HTTPS, I
>> believe).
>>
>>
>>
>> - Noah
>>  
>>
>>
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