Connect The Pc With The Telephone's Web Configurator - Siemens Gigaset A580 IP User Manual

Connect the PC with the telephone's Web configurator

Precondition: The settings of any existing firewall installed on your PC allow
the PC and phone to communicate with each other.
There are two ways of connecting your PC to the base station Web configurator:
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via the (local) IP address of the base station
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via Gigaset config
Establishing a connection via the IP address:
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Establish the telephone's current IP address on the handset:
You can see the phone's current IP address in the handset display by briefly
pressing the registration/paging key on the base station.
Your phone's IP address can change if you have activated dynamic IP address
assignment (
Warning
If one of the four parts of the IP address contains leading zeros (e.g. 002),
these zeros must not be entered in the Web browser address field.
Otherwise the Web browser will not be able to establish a connection to
the Web configurator.
Example: The IP address 192.168.002.002 is displayed on the handset.
192.168.2.2 should be entered in the address field.
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Launch the Web browser on your PC.
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Enter http:// and the telephone's current IP address (for example:
http://192.168.2.2) into the address field of the Web browser.
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Press the return key.
A connection is established to the phone's Web configurator.
Establishing a connection via Gigaset config:
Precondition: The router is connected to the Internet and your PC can access
the Internet via the router.
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Launch the Web browser on your PC.
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Enter the following URL into the Web browser's address field:
http://www.Gigaset-config.com.
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Press the return key.
You will receive a message stating that the connection will be forwarded to
your base station.
If several Gigaset VoIP phones can be reached via your Internet connection, you
will be asked to which one of these phones you would like to be connected.
After successfully forwarding the connection, the
configurator will be displayed in the Web browser.
Web configurator – Setting the phone using a PC
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