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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > !DSPAM:4096b28b265261643216163! > > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
