LDAP with address book and Mail

[Jeff Kelleher]

In article <glenn-D73763.12364317072003@news.islandnet.com>,
GDB <glenn@uvic.ca> wrote:

> Our organization uses an Exchange server, and all the PC Clients use
> Outlook for e-mail. I'm trying to setup the OSX Macs with the LDAP
> server so that Mail and Address book can access the global contacts
> list. So far, I've met with no success. I've added the server into
> Address Book's LDAP preferences, but typing a user's name into the
> Address Book search field retrieves nothing, and there's no
> auto-population of e-mail addresses when I begin to type them in a Mail
> message.
>
> Has anyone else had this experience? And yes, I've tried setting up
> Entourage too, with no more success. I get a -3170 error stating that
> the specified server cannot be found. Yet it is there, and I can ping it.
>
> Is there a particular LDAP configuration that might prevent the Macs
> from seeing it?
>
> Glenn
>

I can't tell you the details, but I think I can set you on the right
path.
In your Utilities folder (in the Applications folder) open Directory
Access. Once you authenticate by clicking the lock and putting in your
password, click on LDAPv3 and then click configure. You're on your own
from here on out, but I believe this is where you need to go to get
started.


Jeff K

[GDB]

In article
<nojeffkspam.nai-64FF4C.22292020072003@reader1.news.rcn.net>,
wrote:

> In article <glenn-D73763.12364317072003@news.islandnet.com>,
> GDB <glenn@uvic.ca> wrote:
>

> > Our organization uses an Exchange server, and all the PC Clients use
> > Outlook for e-mail. I'm trying to setup the OSX Macs with the LDAP
> > server so that Mail and Address book can access the global contacts
> > list. So far, I've met with no success. I've added the server into
> > Address Book's LDAP preferences, but typing a user's name into the
> > Address Book search field retrieves nothing, and there's no
> > auto-population of e-mail addresses when I begin to type them in a Mail
> > message.
> >
> > Has anyone else had this experience? And yes, I've tried setting up
> > Entourage too, with no more success. I get a -3170 error stating that
> > the specified server cannot be found. Yet it is there, and I can ping it.
> >
> > Is there a particular LDAP configuration that might prevent the Macs
> > from seeing it?

>
> I can't tell you the details, but I think I can set you on the right
> path.
> In your Utilities folder (in the Applications folder) open Directory
> Access. Once you authenticate by clicking the lock and putting in your
> password, click on LDAPv3 and then click configure. You're on your own
> from here on out, but I believe this is where you need to go to get
> started.

.. . . thanks, I'd not seen that utility before. How does this differ
from setting up LDAP directories in Address Book though? - other than
that there seem to be more config options available in Directory Access,
including specs fo the type of LDPA directory. Setting up an LDAP server
as Active Directory doesn't seem to help me out here either.

I should perhaps also mention that I am already successfully hooked into
a couple of other OpenLDAP servers. All I used was the Address Book
prefs to set the server details. They work just fine. Can't seem to do
the same for this one local MS LDAP though. I have got as far as
connecting to it now (changed the scope to subtree), but a search of the
directory only brings back long strings of hexadecimal results and the
search never finishes . . . hmmmmm.

Glenn