[ale] Ximian Connector and Active Directory

[Jonathan Rickman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
> Behalf Of John Wells
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:52 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Cc: 'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Ximian Connector and Active Directory
> 
> Jonathan Rickman said:
> > Do this for me. Search for a known contact anyway. You may 
> find that 
> > it is actually searching the GAL, just not enumerating it 
> properly for display.
> > I'm still working on figuring out what is causing it.
> 
> Sigh...I wish.  When I click "Global Address List" under 
> contacts, I get a popup that says
> 
> "Error loading addressbook.
> 
>  We were unable to open this addressbook.
>  This either means you have entered an
>  incorrect URI, or the server is unreachable."
> 
> The strange thing is, as I've mentioned, I can indeed search 
> it with some success as an LDAP server.
> 
> Btw, this is with Evolution 2.0.2 on Ubuntu.

Interesting. I can duplicate your problem by adding an LDAP address book
manually (on 2.0.1 on Slack/Dropline) but not by using the normal Exchange
setup. I can't make it NOT work with Evolution 1.4 and connector 1.4.7.x,
without deliberately breaking things on the server side. My domain
controller security policy is tweaked to specifically allow Linux and Mac
clients to use AD to authenticate. Without actually laying hands on the
system, I couldn't tell you what the problem is. There are just too many
possibilities. If your IT staff isn't willing to actually sit down and
figure it out, then you might just have to run an older version. I get the
best results on RH9 and Fedora Core2(unpatched original release). I've got
everything except for GC browsing working on Slackware but the search works
fine. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

--
Jonathan