I just downloaded VMware player and installed it onto my win 7 HP laptop. Then I loaded CentOS and Asterisk from my ISO image CD.
 
I’m using the URI... and it WORKS PERFECTLY! I can log into it with putty, and WINscp as well via the win 7 laptop that it’s running on. Pretty slick!
 
Now installing it on my other HP Win 7 laptop.
 
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Jim W7RY
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