Re: [Evolution] Evo 1.2 & LDAP with MS Exchange Server -- Sorted

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 06:59, Cormac Long wrote:
> Got it working,
>    edited evolution/addressbook-sources.xml which shows the config for
> the LDAP server
>
> I changed the 
>     <scope>base</scope>
>
> to     <scope>sub</scope>
>
> and all worked OK.
>
> Of course if you edit this in the GUI, the drop down combo shows only
> one and base and if you change it, you lose your manual over-ride.

Hm, the combo should show One and Sub...  However, I just found a change
in my tree (oops) that didn't reorder the constants in a header file so
even though One and Sub are listed in the .glade file, "base" and "one"
are the only ones that end up in the .xml file.

It'll be fixed soon.

Chris

> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 22:12, Cormac Long wrote: 
> > Does anyone have evo 1.2 working with MS Exchange LDAP server?.. if
> > so can you provide details of the configuration.. bind, scope etc
> >
> > I've monitored evo and gq using Ethereal.. 
> >
> > Results from using gq (which works)
> > firstly, it binds but with simple authentication and dn and password
> > set to NULL
> >
> > Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
> >     Message: Id=1  Bind Request
> >         Message Length: 7
> >         Version: 2
> >         DN: (null)
> >         Auth Type: Simple (0x00)
> >         Password: (null)
> >
> > Evo won't allow you to set dn and password to NULL.. you either
> > don't bind at all or use non-null email or dn binding... both of
> > which fail on my LDAP server.
> >
> > Then for the search, gq does the following:
> > Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
> >     Message: Id=2  Search Request
> >         Message Length: 33
> >         Base DN: (null)
> >         Scope: Subtree (0x02)
> >         Dereference: Never (0x00)
> >         Size Limit: 0
> >         Time Limit: 0
> >         Attributes Only: False
> >         Filter: (cn=*long*)
> >
> > Evo which can't do NULL binds, goes straight for the search and does
> > the following:
> > Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
> >     Message: Id=7  Search Request
> >         Message Length: 53
> >         Base DN: (null)
> >         Scope: Base (0x00)
> >         Dereference: Never (0x00)
> >         Size Limit: 100
> >         Time Limit: 0
> >         Attributes Only: False
> >         Filter: (|(cn=*long*)(sn=*long*))
> >
> > The search string given to gq was "long" and because it was
> > configured for searching cn with a "contains" rule, it added the *
> > before and after the string.
> >
> > The evo search fails with just "long" and "*long*" when I tried to
> > emulate the gq search.
> >
> > All I can assume is that it fails because I can't set the scope to
> > be subtree (evo only allows base and one to be selected) or it has
> > something to do with the inability to bind with dn=NULL,
> > password=NULL.
> >
> > I confirmed with my admin that we don't support a bind.. so I'm
> > inclined to believe that the subtree is the cause.
> >
> > When I was using evo back on the 1.0.X days, I had LDAP working..
> > its only since I moved to evo 1.2 that it doesn't work.
> >
> > Anyone care to offer suggestions/solutions?
> >
> > Regards,
> >    Cormac
> >
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>    Cormac
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