Re: [Evolution] ldap protocol problems

["Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper" <vR movingparts net>]

The server is openldap-1.2.9-5 (an old RH 6.2 box).  And I'm using TLS =
never.  So, it sounds like I'm pretty much out of luck with this version
of openldap?  And did this change between evo 1.0.8 and 1.2.0?

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 23:29, Chris Toshok wrote:
> At present evolution sets the connection to v3 when it initializes it,
> and there's no setting to drop the protocol to v2.  Which server are you
> running?
>
> The setting is mostly there because of the TLS stuff, so potentially it
> could be done only in the case where use_tls != never.
>
> Chris
>
> On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 06:46, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> > I'm running debian sid and using evolution 1.2.0 with the below LDAP
> > versions installed.  Evolution version 1.0.8 used to work just fine and
> > dandy with the LDAP server at my work, but 1.2.0 now reports "We were
> > unable to open this addressbook. This either means you have entered an
> > incorrect URI, or the LDAP server is unreachable."  
> >
> > Mind you, none of my settings for this LDAP server have changed between
> > version 1.0.8 (where it was working), and 1.2.0 (where it's not).  
> >
> > I've played with the command-line "ldapsearch" utility and it looks to
> > me like my LDAP server isn't able to handle protocol version 3, but if I
> > force it to use protocol version 2 (by using "-P 2"), ldapsearch is able
> > to talk to the server.  
> >
> > So, my question...  Is it possible to force evolution to use a specific
> > LDAP protocol version for its lookups?  Or, is there a proper way to get
> > evolution to talk to my LDAP server again?  =:)
> >
> > TIA!!
> >
> > ii  ldap-utils     2.0.23-14      OpenLDAP utilities.
> > ii  libldap2       2.0.23-14      OpenLDAP libraries (without TLS support).
> > ii  libldap2-dev   2.0.23-14      OpenLDAP development libraries.
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