[ale] Ximian Connector and Active Directory

[John Wells]

> 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,

Thanks for sticking with this.  My windows admin is definitely willing to
help...he's just unsure what setting to check to see if Mac and OSX
clients can authenticate.

Do you recall specifically what settings you have to tweak?

Thanks,
John