[lug] Connecting to MS LDAP server

[rm at fabula.de]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:30:03PM -0400, 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:

Haven't done it for years, but as far as i remember the address
book is actually accessible by LDAP queries (and i had my netscape
set up for using it as the default address book).
For the extended calender functions i'm afraid that's really MS-
proprietary (but there are some commercial tools for Linux available).


 HTH Ralf Mattes

> http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/
> 
> 	--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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