@black3dynamite said in Fedora install doesn't see SATA drives ...:

Try turning off SecureBoot.

Thanks. I checked and this was off.

I finally booted into gparted and it was throwing some errors that seemed to be because there was no partition table on any of the 4 drives. I added an unformatted partition on each and then then once I rebooted the drives were found by the fedora installer. I presume it would have also been found by the Centos installer at that point as well but I didn't actually try it.

We recently switched to freepbx with yealink phones and voip service and my users are saying that sometimes they hear a severe echo on incoming calls to the point that they can't understand the person on the far end. This is only happening very rarely, maybe 1 call every day or two but it has been reported by 3 different users so I don't think it is isolated to just one person or extension. I've got a 50M fiber circuit at this location that has no capacity issues at the moment so I don't expect bandwidth to be an issue

Is this likely coming just from the other party to the call? At first I thought maybe a cell phone caller with bad connection but I would think that symptoms in that case would be a garbled or stuttered type call but not necessarily echo.

Is there anything I can control related to echo when my piece of the call is all IP from phone to service provider? I thought echo was caused by impedance mismatches on copper lines and trunks but I don't have any such link in the call, at least not that I have any control over.

Does anyone have any recommendations on video conference equipment that integrates with MS Teams. We've got 1 big conference room (seats 15) and a few smaller ones that seat 5-8. I was starting to look at some equipment to handle the audio/video part but just wanted to see if anyone had any experience with a system such as this with MS Teams.

Thanks

@JasGot said in Email phishing attempt against one of our vendors was successful ...:

@BraswellJay said in Email phishing attempt against one of our vendors was successful ...:

Subsequently and on the same day, the vendor received another email that he thought was from one of our accountants directing him to ACH to a different (bogus) account.

What makes me also think it was a directed phish attack on your vendor, is that you say the vendor received an e-mail regarding another ACH account number on the same day, but you didn't say the message had any indication it was a follow up or correction to the earlier message.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. It does appear it was on the vendor end but it was a more sophisticated attack that did involve us being fooled as well even though the target was our vendor. From our investigation this is what we believe actually happened:

• Vendor owed us and was going to pay by ACH and requested details. These details were sent to him by our head of finance in an encrypted email which the vendor did receive.
• The attacker then spoofed our accounting team by sending us a phishing email that appeared to come from the vendor (the domain name used against us left an "s" off of the end of the domain name, thus appeared valid to our accounting team) stating that he had not received the ACH info (which the vendor had, this was the attacker phishing us). One of our accountants responded (to the wrong domain) once again giving the correct ACH details.
• At this point the attacker had all he needed to spoof an email that appeared to come from the accountant that had responded to him. The attacker used that info to send a phishing attack email to the vendor which appeared to come from our accountant but using the wrong domain name and contained the attackers ACH info.
• Vendor was fooled by this email and sent payment to the wrong account.
• Vendor ignored (for some reason, don't know why) the fact that when he went to ACH the money the company name appearing on his bank portal as the destination for the payment was not our company name.

One other detail is that both of the spoofed domains that were used in the attack were registered through google on the same day approximately 4 weeks ago which would suggest they were anticipating being able to use us and the vendor in a coordinated attack.

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Welcome @BraswellJay

Thanks! I have lurked here for a while and learned a great deal from the posters here so thanks to all who have contributed.

Re: 8 port FXO gateway needed

I have a site where I need an 8 port FXO gateway. I had been leaning toward the Grandstream gxw4108 but based on the linked thread above from a few years ago that seems maybe to be a low call quality device so I'm hesitant to try that now.

I see that Sangoma has an updated model, the Vega 60. Has anyone had any experience with this device with FreePBX? How was call quality?

This site currently has an old Nortel BCM but Centurylink just advised me that they are terminating our support agreement for that system at the end of April due to it's age.

This site is in a rural area and my only access is dual T1s so I don't think ditching the POTS lines and going SIP is an option.

Thanks!

I'm setting up a FreePBX instance and doing some testing. Right now I have two extensions, one a SIP extension using Zoiper softphone and the other a virtual extension with voicemail enabled, just for something to test with.

I seem to be able to make a call from the softphone to the virtual extension with no problem in that it seems to connect each time but the audio to hear the voicemail greeting is not received most of the time.

I've broke out wireshark to see if I could determine anything. One thing I noticed is that when my Zoiper softphone first registers with the server it seems to receive a 401 Unauthorized from the server before successfully registering. Is it normal to receive receive 401 Unauthorized before a successful registration? .248 is the server and .139 is the softphone.

Source,Destination,Protocol,Length,Info
192.168.2.139,192.168.2.248,SIP,619,Request: REGISTER sip:192.168.2.248;transport=UDP  (1 binding) | 
192.168.2.248,192.168.2.139,SIP,604,Status: 401 Unauthorized | 
192.168.2.139,192.168.2.248,SIP,787,Request: REGISTER sip:192.168.2.248;transport=UDP  (1 binding) | 
192.168.2.248,192.168.2.139,SIP,683,Request: OPTIONS sip:[email protected]:56778;rinstance=b05461348c8fdb80;transport=UDP | 
192.168.2.248,192.168.2.139,SIP,661,Status: 200 OK  (1 binding) | 
192.168.2.139,192.168.2.248,SIP,712,Status: 200 OK | 
192.168.2.139,192.168.2.248,SIP,784,Request: REGISTER sip:192.168.2.248;transport=UDP  (remove 1 binding) | 
192.168.2.248,192.168.2.139,SIP,616,Status: 401 Unauthorized | 
192.168.2.139,192.168.2.248,SIP,784,Request: REGISTER sip:192.168.2.248;transport=UDP  (remove 1 binding) | 
192.168.2.248,192.168.2.139,SIP,567,Status: 200 OK  (0 bindings) | 
192.168.2.139,192.168.2.248,SIP,619,Request: REGISTER sip:192.168.2.248;transport=UDP  (1 binding) | 
192.168.2.248,192.168.2.139,SIP,604,Status: 401 Unauthorized | 
192.168.2.139,192.168.2.248,SIP,787,Request: REGISTER sip:192.168.2.248;transport=UDP  (1 binding) | 
192.168.2.248,192.168.2.139,SIP,683,Request: OPTIONS sip:[email protected]:56778;rinstance=3b911898cd7a2274;transport=UDP | 
192.168.2.248,192.168.2.139,SIP,661,Status: 200 OK  (1 binding) | 
192.168.2.139,192.168.2.248,SIP,712,Status: 200 OK | 
192.168.2.139,192.168.2.248,UDP,46,56778  >  5060 Len=4

I notice also that if I capture then the softphone is constantly sending RTP packets to the server but the server is not sending any RTP packets back to the softphone, which I presume is why I'm not hearing the audio of the voicemail greeting from the server.

@DustinB3403 said in FreePBX / Random loss of audio ...:

Audio issues tend to be due to codec issues.

Thanks, you were right it was codec issue which I hadn't even considered. I changed zoiper to exclude some of the one's it was saying were available and have had zero issues in about 15 test calls since then.

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX / Random loss of audio ...:

The codec you probably want on both is Opus. Since you paid for that in your Gold package on Zoiper.

I didn't pay for Zoiper. I downloaded the client from their site and when it starts it offers me to upgrade to Pro or something like that but I just choose the option that says continue with a free account. This is Zoiper5. I did just install it yesterday right before I started testing so perhaps they are letting me use that as a trial but will go away? Not sure, but I haven't paid for it for sure.

I have several ubiquiti AP's and one ER4 that I've bought from Amazon.

I'm looking now at an Edgeswitch 48 and it looks to me like the best price is just to buy from Ubiquiti direct. Does anyone have any other source for ubiquiti equipment?

Thanks.

I'm wanting to port ~50 DIDs to Skyetel.

Does anyone have any promo codes that might get some relief on the port in fee?

@jaredbusch What is your sense of if @Skyetel or any other provider could contain such an attack?

Do you think voip.ms just got caught unprepared or is there just not really a defense for such an attack on a SIP service?

@travisdh1 You are exactly right. I didn't even think of that. I meant to turn that off but instead of turning off I had selected Show Icon Only, so it removed the text I was used to seeing but left the icon.

Thanks.

I have a new windows 10 machine that once I joined to our domain started reacting sluggish and slow. There is an icon on the taskbar that I don't recognize. When I hover over it a popup from the taskbar comes up and I get some moving dots as if it is searching for something but nothing ever displays. I can't find anything in the taskbar settings that seems to control enable/disable and if I right click I just get the regular taskbar settings options.

It is the icon on the left in this snippet :

I've been asked to get a few quotes for a cyber security audit. Apparently the cyber insurance coverage that we've been carrying is going to require an audit prior to allowing us to renew the coverage when the current policy term expires later this year.

What are some things I should make sure to inquire about from perspective auditor vendors to make sure we cover as much bases as possible?

Any other tips or suggestions would also be appreciated.

Thanks.

I have a user that is complaining of wrist pain due to typing and has asked for an ergonomic keyboard. I'm not against this and want to get her what she needs to prevent any long term issues.

Is there any difference other than aesthetics when shopping for an ergonomic keyboard? Anything I should pay attention to that may make one better than another?

I've seen and been aware of these of course, but never used one nor shopped for one before.

I did see this old thread : https://mangolassi.it/topic/4411/microsoft-sculpt-ergonomic-keyboard-for-business

@IRJ Would you still recommend this keyboard?

Has anyone used a good system for managing the look of email signatures?

We use o365 for email with a mix of users on the web app and the local outlook client install. We've had a standardized signature for a while now but it was just something we taught users how to do for themselves. The bosses are wanting to have a solution where it can be centrally managed now.

I found this from just googling but don't know if it is any good :

https://www.exclaimer.com/email-signature-software

Thanks

Has anyone used one of the form builder type services where you can define a form for an onsite technician to complete while on site. We have a few field techs which visit some of our company farms to check on operations at these remote sites and right now we are still using the paper / clipboard approach for their site visit reports.

I had found the following which looked like they might be worth checking into but would be interested in checking out others if someone had a recommendation.

https://www.fastfieldforms.com
https://www.zerionsoftware.com/iformbuilder

Thanks.

@Dashrender said in Webcam recommendations for desktop users ...:

@JaredBusch said in Webcam recommendations for desktop users ...:

At this point, whatever you can find in stock.

Exactly. I've purchased a few Taotuo cameras from Amazon (about all i could find) one was OK, the other was crap.

Good luck finding much of anything.

Ok. I didn't realize supply was still that tight. I thought it had loosened some. I'll see what I can find then and hope for the best.

We're looking to get some webcams for some of our desktop users to have for web conferencing. I'm not looking for anything real high end. Just decent camera with built in microphone. Does anyone have any recommendations on one's they've been happy with?

Thanks