<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I believe this comment is a bit dated. Back in the 3.x days when we had only 2 calls per line. when 2 phones had the same shared line as their primary line the 2 users tended to lock each other off the phone (or strand a call on hold). I cannot think of a reason not to do this in 4.x.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>/Wes</DIV><DIV> <BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 14, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Just wondering if any of the Cisco folk can comment on why this restriction (or caveat) is in place. I'm more interested than anything. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">From<A href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/products_administration_guide_chapter09186a00803edb46.html#wp90243"> <U><FONT color="#0000ff">Cisco CallManager System Guide, Release 4.1(3): IP Phones</FONT></U></A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Do not configure shared line appearances on the primary lines of the phones; for example, if two phones have a shared line appearance, only one of the phones should have the primary line configured as shared (the other phone should have the secondary line configured as shared). </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A. Network Analyst (CCS)<BR>University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1<BR>(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX <BR>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ <BR>Sanity First : Number of days with less than<BR>50 messages in my inbox at the end of the day: buffer overrun</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">cisco-voip mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</A></DIV> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>