On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 07:14, Kevin McLauchlan wrote: > G'day all. > > Newbie here. > > I have Evolution sorta working, but LDAP is not. Yet... > > I looked in the Ximian Knowledge Base and found article 55 > (reproduced below), which is probably correct, except that > I don't understand what it's telling me to do. > > Could some knowledgeable person please look at it and > tell me WHAT exactly is supposed to be substituted in > the lines that they suggest to edit into my config.xmldb file? >
TO find out what you want to put in there, check out what your ldap server is serving .. Open a browser and open the URL ldap://ldapserver.yourdomain/ This will give you a bunch of info on your ldap server. You should see something like "ou=Company,0=UberCompany" which you should user to put into your "value" entry below. e.g "ldap://myldapserver:389/ou=MyCompany,o=ParentCompany?mail?sub"; That worked for me .. just make sure to killev before you make the mod. > --------- begin Ximian KB article #55 -------------- > Question My company has an LDAP server which we use to track people's > contact information. I've set up Evolution so it has access to the > directory, but when I'm writing an email, it never performs address > searches on the LDAP directory. How do I configure this? > > Answer It is possible to change the search path for address lookups in > the composer, but it isn't supported by Ximian at at this time. In fact, > there isn't a GUI yet, and this solution could change in future versions > of Evolution. Here's how you do it: > > Add this to your ~/evolution/config.xmldb : > > <section path="/Addressbook/Completion"> > <entry name="uri" type="string" > value="ldap://localhost:389/dc=toshok,dc=org??one"/> > </section> > > NOTE: Change the URL to match the addressbook URL you want to use. With > LDAP URLs it has to be formatted using the correct syntax for your > system. > > --------- end Ximian KB article #55 -------------- > > For example, if my LDAP server is Chipmunk at 172.22.0.15, > what-in-heck am I supposed to type in, and where precisely > does it replace something in the sample lines that Ximian tech > support provided above? > > Like, fer instance, those question marks... are they formatting? > Or are they an indication that I'm supposed to substitute > something at that spot? > > Should "//localhost:389..." be replaced by the server name, > or the server IP address, or something else, or not touched? > Is 389 a port number? Does that need to be substituted? > Where would I look to find out what it wants to replace it? > Yes, I am lost... <grin> > > My local IT guy is equally lost. He knows how to work with > Exchange Server and Outlook, but says he hasn't a clue what > is desired and in what format for Ximian on Linux. > > If I get this stuff going, I not only get ME working, I > get the IT group that much closer to adopting a Linux > desktop for the whole company. And they actually WANT to > do that, so I'd hate to discourage such laudable open- > mindedness. Ahem.... :-) > Any "help for dummies" would be much appreciated at this point. > > -- > Kevin McLauchlan > Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. > "Ultimate Trust(TM)" > > > _______________________________________________ > Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
