Topic: LDAP address book

[Liam Dsey]

Can anyone help me setting up either outlook 2000 (in corporate mode) or Netscape Navigator 6.2 as a client looking at the LDAP address book on an SMEServerV5.

I have looked at the documentation and followed links in the in the forums, but to no avail.

I have created all the user accounts and if I go into webmail ... contacts ... search, they all appear (apart from the groups), but I can not get anywhere with Outlook or Netscape.

In Netscape I went into 'Edit .. Preferences .. Mail ... Addressing', ticked on directory services and clicked 'Edit directories'. I added a new LDAP directory service with a hostname of lomail.expotel.org (tried www... as well) and a base DN: of dc=expotel, dc=com. I even tried adding cn=*. I left the advanced settings as they are ... Port=389, 100 results, serch filter=(objectclass=*) and scope=subtree. At one point in time I got the autocomplete on e-mail addresses to work, but I can not see a full listing of the address book.

In Outlook 2000 (server mode) I added LDAP as a new service with the same parameters as above, but with a valid username and password. Still no address book listing.

[Robert Boerner]

Have you tried putting the IP address of the server in the config rather the the full host name? i.e. 192.168.1.1 instead of lomail.expotel.org?

Also, I am not sure what you mean by Outlook 2000 (server mode). Can you expand on what you mean by server mode in this context?

I have setup users with Outlook 2000 and they have been using the LDAP address book just fine. I am away from that location so I can't retrace my steps exactly, but I can dig them up for you

[Steve Bush]

You don't need a username and password to access the LDAP server.
I have setup Outlook 2k on quite a few clients without much trouble.
The cn=domain,dc=com is the only confusing part.

If you aren't on a local subnet, you will have to enable change a parameter in the server-manager:
LDAP directory access = public

[Liam Dsey]

In reply to Rob and Steve ....

Rob.

Yes I have tried the IP address, still no joy. Sorry, wrong terminology when I said server mode, I mean corporate mode as opposed to 'internet only'. This installs outlook with the 'profile' concept where your address book etc is held in 'services', rather than 'Accounts' as in Internet only mode.

Steve.

The parameters that e-smith tells you to put in are dc=domain,dc=com, not cn=domain,dc=com. I have seen cn=* suggested as another parameter and I have tried them all.

I am on the same subnet, a 172.16 sn. The e-smith server is on 172.16.0.2 and the PC has a IP address assigned by another LINUX RedHat machine running a DNS server.

Liam

[Steve Bush]

I can't understand why I typed cn=domain...sorry.
I use dc=domain,dc=com on my systems.

I think you have everything setup correctly.

With Outlook 2k, if you go into the address book, you need to put a portion of the users name, or company, etc then click on find to get something returned.
I don't think you can set it up to have all the addresses returned automatically,
at least on mine you can't.