[lug] Connecting to MS LDAP server

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Wed Jul 16 11:52:27 MDT 2003


On Wednesday 16 July 2003 12:30 pm, Joseph McDonald wrote:
> That calandar, addressbook sharing is most likely an Exchange
> server, rather than active directory. There's a linux Exchange
> client called Connector that allows you to use those services:
>
> http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/

And it works well.  A coworker uses it with Evolution.  AFAIK it does not 
use LDAP but uses the webDAV interface to Exchange.

Since KDE does LDAP, and so does our MS directory, I keep hoping I can 
connect to it with my KDE apps.

Thanks

Michael

> 	--joey
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:01:03PM -0400, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > Our company directory is a windows thingie.  With outlook anyone can
> > find any mail address, browse calendars, etc.
> >
> > I'm told that MS is just doing LDAP under the hood, so in priciple I
> > should be able to connect the KDE address book (Kaddressbook)  to the
> > server and have similar access to the company directory.
> >
> > Has anyone done this?  Did you have success?  As near as I can tell
> > I've never gotten anything from the server.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Michael
> >
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