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

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:33, Dick Roth wrote:
> Hi All--
>
> With hope in my heart, I tried this edit to the .xml file but with no
> joy.  What to do!!  I use LDAP lookups often during the day and now have
> to use gq to look up addresses and type them into my outgoing message.
>
> This function worked perfectly in 1.0.8.  But now, frustration.

what server are you using?  what's the <contactserver> block look like? 
what is the output of wombat when you run queries (or autocomplete) -
run killev then start wombat in a seperate terminal, then restart
evolution.

Chris

> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 09:59, 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.
> >
> > 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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