Re: [Evolution] Problems setting up connector

[Sushma Rai <rsushma novell com>]

On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 11:19 -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I'm having quite a few problems trying to use the Exchange connector to
> access my work email. I had it working over a year ago with our old
> Exchange server, but trying to use it now I'm getting nowhere.
>
> If I try to add the account from within Evolution, the wizard only asks
> for my username. It doesn't prompt me for a server name at all, and
> always fails when I try to connect.

The Exchange-operations plugin seems to be disabled.
Please enable it and provide user name and OWA urls , as you provide to 
OWA.
Also, Evolution-2.6 will be released today... It is better to try 2.6
instead of 2.4.x

Thanks,
Sushma.

> If I use the ximian-connector-setup-2.4, I can get it as far as asking
> me for the GC server name, but then it always fails. Running it with
> E2K_DEBUG=4 I see the following towards the bottom of the log:
>
> GC: looking up info
> for /o=<snipped>/ou=<snipped>/cn=Recipients/cn=alexmalinovich
>
> GC: Connecting to ldap://<snipped>:3268/
> GC: connected
>
> GC: ldap_search failed: 0x57
>
>
>
> All of the <snipped> bits above were changed by me for privacy. They do
> show all of the correct information. The LDAP connection is always to
> one of the valid DC's on our network. All of our DC's have anonymous
> queries enabled to allow them to work with some of our Linux boxes, so
> there should be no problem connecting there. I have also tried querying
> my username from the command line using ldapsearch and everything comes
> up fine.
>
> Looking around online I have found that ldap error 0x57 is
> "LDAP_FILTER_ERROR". Unfortunately, that's as far as my knowledge of
> LDAP can get me. I'm not sure what type of a query Evolution is trying
> to perform, but I would imagine that the query is going through ok but
> that filtering the return values is what's causing the error.
>
> If there's any more information I can provide I'd be glad to help.
> Thanks in advance for any help with this.
>
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