Re: [Evolution] Active Directory

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

Yeah, ActiveDirectory is just LDAP.  There's a special active directory
backend in connector that has a better/more logical mapping of evolution
fields to active directory fields, and it handles authentication better.

Chris

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 16:55 -0400, Wise, Jeremey wrote:
> Horray!!!!!!!!! 
>
> Figured it out. What the issue was is that AD does not allow you to view
> objects that are nested in "folders" (pardon the technical term). What
> was happening is that he account was searching and returning results
> from the higher level without searching the 'subfolders'. Changing the
> setting "Search Scope" to SUB alowed it to parse the 'folders' to find
> all my contacts. I also had the "Search Base" set too low down the tree.
>
> Summery: Contact lookups from AD servers does work. You can use
> Evolution as an Outlook replacement (statement of exchange fredian
> slip).
>
> THanks,
>
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 16:20, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 15:55 -0400, Wise, Jeremey wrote: 
> > > Pardon my being a whiner but doesn't this make Evolution as an Exchange
> > > replacement rather broken.
> >
> > Who ever said it was an Exchange replacement?
> >
> > >  I puchased Evolution under the pretense that
> > > I could replace all major functionality. Being able to query to whom in
> > > corporate the message will be going to is rather critical in nature.
> >
> > Evolution only speaks the IETF blessed standard protocols. AD is not
> > an IETF protocol, it's a proprietary Microsoft product (it's not a
> > protocol afaik). AD is accessed via the proprietary Exchange protocol
> > (which is not publicly documented and would be a royal pita to reverse
> > engineer). Connector works with Exchange only when Exchange opens up
> > the WebDAV interfaces. Perhaps Connector can talk to your AD, but
> > Evolution certainly cannot.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > > Now that I am done ranting: Is it (or has someone) build a local
> > > OpenLDAP server and connection from it to AD, then pointed Evolution to
> > > the local Open LDAP service for name lookup? Based on my limited RTFM it
> > > seems this not only can be done but is the only route to get Linux to
> > > speak to AD (ie not just modifications to a client but having to
> > > impliment the full server on each host). 
> > >
> > > Input greatly apreaciated.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:20, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > > Evolution doesn't support Active Directory, it only supports LDAP
> > > > (unless Connector supports AD, but that's a separate product that I
> > > > know very little about - same for most every Evolution hacker).
> > > >
> > > > Jeff
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:55 -0400, Wise, Jeremey wrote: 
> > > > > How do I get Evolution to talk to active directory for email account
> > > > > lookup. I googled around. This is the only major catch for migration
> > > > > from Outlook to Evolution. It is a 'show stopper' though as I can't type
> > > > > worth a darn.
> > > > >
> > > > > Pointing me to documentation is perfectly fine. I googled around and hit
> > > > > only stuff from RH 6.2 erra.
> > > > >
> > > > > THanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Jeremey Wise.
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