i'm connecting to an older exchange 5.5 server for ldap contacts, and it
no longer works with evo 1.2.  it worked perfect with 1.0.8.  i think it
has something to do with the fact that its an ldap v2 server, and not a
v3.   i have no problems connecting to our newer iplanet directory.

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 09:59, Cormac Long wrote:
> Got it working,
>    edited evolution/addressbook-sources.xml which shows the config for
> the LDAP server
> 
> I changed the 
>     <scope>base</scope>
> 
> to     <scope>sub</scope>
> 
> and all worked OK.
> 
> Of course if you edit this in the GUI, the drop down combo shows only
> one and base and if you change it, you lose your manual over-ride.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 22:12, Cormac Long wrote: 
> > Does anyone have evo 1.2 working with MS Exchange LDAP server?.. if
> > so can you provide details of the configuration.. bind, scope etc
> > 
> > I've monitored evo and gq using Ethereal.. 
> > 
> > Results from using gq (which works)
> > firstly, it binds but with simple authentication and dn and password
> > set to NULL
> > 
> > Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
> >     Message: Id=1  Bind Request
> >         Message Length: 7
> >         Version: 2
> >         DN: (null)
> >         Auth Type: Simple (0x00)
> >         Password: (null)
> > 
> > Evo won't allow you to set dn and password to NULL.. you either
> > don't bind at all or use non-null email or dn binding... both of
> > which fail on my LDAP server.
> > 
> > Then for the search, gq does the following:
> > Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
> >     Message: Id=2  Search Request
> >         Message Length: 33
> >         Base DN: (null)
> >         Scope: Subtree (0x02)
> >         Dereference: Never (0x00)
> >         Size Limit: 0
> >         Time Limit: 0
> >         Attributes Only: False
> >         Filter: (cn=*long*)
> > 
> > Evo which can't do NULL binds, goes straight for the search and does
> > the following:
> > Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
> >     Message: Id=7  Search Request
> >         Message Length: 53
> >         Base DN: (null)
> >         Scope: Base (0x00)
> >         Dereference: Never (0x00)
> >         Size Limit: 100
> >         Time Limit: 0
> >         Attributes Only: False
> >         Filter: (|(cn=*long*)(sn=*long*))
> > 
> > The search string given to gq was "long" and because it was
> > configured for searching cn with a "contains" rule, it added the *
> > before and after the string.
> > 
> > The evo search fails with just "long" and "*long*" when I tried to
> > emulate the gq search.
> > 
> > All I can assume is that it fails because I can't set the scope to
> > be subtree (evo only allows base and one to be selected) or it has
> > something to do with the inability to bind with dn=NULL,
> > password=NULL.
> > 
> > I confirmed with my admin that we don't support a bind.. so I'm
> > inclined to believe that the subtree is the cause.
> > 
> > When I was using evo back on the 1.0.X days, I had LDAP working..
> > its only since I moved to evo 1.2 that it doesn't work.
> > 
> > Anyone care to offer suggestions/solutions?
> > 
> > Regards,
> >    Cormac
> > 
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>    Cormac
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