We have the AT&T 2 line digital answering system #1872.

Your line may be down. Contact the telephone company.

go iin option under ringers cheak to see whats its on before voise mail picks up 1 3 6 10 ? isnt it in the optimns menu or if u have seprate unit for voise mail cheak setting on that beofre it grabbs the call does that help

You need an ANALOG phone line for faxing, not DIGITAL.

The LS6215 isn't an answering machine. If you have a separate answering machine connected to your phone line, refer to its documentation. If you subscribe to a voicemail system offered by your telephone company, contact them for instructions on setting up and using their system.

1 Press Annc.
2 Choose the announcement location by
pressing select until the appropriate
mailbox is displayed.
3 Press Record. Begin speaking after the
beep.
4 When you are finished, press Stop.
You will hear your new announcement.
5 Repeat Steps 1-4 to record another
announcement
— OR —
Press Stop

Out of box, the AT&T 1738 is designed to operate on a single telephone line. I don't know of any device on the market today that could automatically switch it between multiple telephone lines.

Some options include (in no particular order):

1) Purchasing additional 1738s to cover the other telephone lines.

2) Some cordless telephones on the market are designed to handle 2 telephone lines. Their answering machines will cover both lines. AT&T and Panasonic offer such phones.

3) Check out AT&T's line of NoKSU small office telephone sets. The phones will handle up to 4 telephone lines and 1 model features a built in answering machine. In order for the telephones to function 100% all phones would have to be replaced with the models within the AT&T NoKSU family.

4) If this is strictly a business application, consider purchasing a true business telephone system for the office.

Okay first you'll need to know the 2 digit "Set" number for your Phone.
Press "Featire" *0 then Intercom to get the 2 digit number.

Okay Now we need to configure:
Press "Feature" **CONFIG or **266344
Press: Next until "Sets" appears "press Show" Top Right Button
Enter 2 digit "Set Number"
Press Next Until You Get Ringing Lines
Hit the "Change" Button to Turn the Line to "Yes" to ring
Do this for each Line you have that you want to ring.
Done, Please Rlease.

Hello, yes it sounds like your trying to connect a "analog device" to a "digital" telephone. If you wish to connect the answering machine to answer your line or lines, you should contact your facilities maintenance department and see if they can "hardwire" your telephone line (your primary phone number), to another jack in your office so your answering machine will work by being placed in "parallel" with your phone system and your primary phone number. If you have more than one phone line (number) you wish for the machine to answer, you will need to ask for a "analog extension" from your digital phone system and have it programmed to ring when any of your roll over lines ring. However, keep in mind the machine can only answer one call at a time, the other simultaneous callers will get a ring no answer until the first caller has hung up. Good luck, hoped to help. CG

Astonishingly, assignment of announcement to phone line is not documented in the user manual. Tech support was totally worthless concerning this issue. I had to discover it by trial and error. To assign an announcement to a specific phone line do the following:
1) Record your announcement message for a, b, c, ao, etc. as documented
2) Press program
3) Keep pressing the feature button until ANNC appear at the bottom of screen, line 1 appears at the top, and the letter 'a' appears in the middle.
4) Choose the announcement to be assigned to Line 1 by pressing the select button
5) Press the feature button again. Line 2 appears in the display.
6) Repeat step 4 to select the announcement to be assigned to Line 2.
7) Press program button, or take phone off-hook to end the sequence.

Shame on AT&T for such shoddy documentation, and lack of support for their products!