On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:58:27 -0400, Darren Oh wrote: > I am using Debian Sarge and Evolution 2.0.4. I have set up my own > LDAP service, and it works fine with everything except Evolution. An > attempt to open an LDAP address book in Evolution results in an error > message roughly like this: "Unable to open address book. The URL may > be incorrect or the host may be unreachable." Evolution does not even > attempt to prompt for a password. I looked at the slapd debug output, > and it appears that Evolution is attempting to use an unsupported > certificate-based authentication. Can Evolution be set up to use a > simple password login, or am I stuck with setting up a more complex > LDAP configuration? I'm new to LDAP, so I need simple but thorough > guidance. Any help is appreciated.
The simplest authentication is "Use SSL: Never" and "Authentication method: Anonymous" in your LDAP folder's preferences. Also make sure that the LDAP server grants read access to the client (which is the default). You might want to add to your /etc/ldap/slapd.conf Evo's schema: include /usr/share/evolution-data-server-1.0/evolutionperson.schema -- Yavor Doganov JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software Association - Bulgaria http://fsa-bg.org GNOME in Bulgarian! http://gnome.cult.bg _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
