Topic: Thunderbird mailclient and SME-server

[Rien]

Hi all,

I use SME-server 6.01. On my Win clients I use Thunderbird 0.8 as a mailclient. The problem is that I can't get LDAP to work. When I want to search for an address, I get the following error message:

"LDAP (server search problem)"

What are:

• Base DN
• Bind DN

Rien
Netherlands.

[kmac]

Hi Rien,

I am using SME-Server6.01 and Thunderbird 0.8 also.

On Base DN put in dc=domainname,dc=com
(substituting your domain name of course)
So if your domain name was rien.net, you would put
dc=rien,dc=net in Base DN.
I left Bind DN blank.

Works Fine for Me.

Kevin

[Rien]

Hi Kevin,

My SME-server has ip-address 192.168.10.10 and my domain name is focus.demon.nl

So my settings are:

Name: ldap
Hostname: 192.168.10.10
Base DN: dc=focus, dc=demon, dc=nl
Port number: 389
Bind DN: [blank]
Use secure connection (SSL): unchecked

It still doesn't work!

Rien
(Netherlands)

[mdo]

Rien,

looks good to me. The only thing that I can imagine might be (wrong) spaces?
Base DN: dc=focus, dc=demon, dc=nl
Base DN: dc=focus,dc=demon,dc=nl

Have a try, everything else is exactly as we use it.

Regards,
Michael

[Rien]

Hi Michael,

I tried both methods. Is there a way to test LDAP on my SME-server?

[jeroenm]

Rien,

looks good to me. The only thing that I can imagine might be (wrong) spaces?
Base DN: dc=focus, dc=demon, dc=nl
Base DN: dc=focus,dc=demon,dc=nl

Have a try, everything else is exactly as we use it.

Regards,
Michael

I don't think focus.demon.nl is gonna work, because it's a subdomain. Maybe you could try:
Base DN: dc=focus.demon, dc=nl

[Rien]

Hi Jeroen,

I tried that too, without success. According to the "Directory" panel it should be:

The LDAP server provides a network-available listing of the user accounts and groups on your server, and can be accessed using an LDAP client such as the Address Book feature in Netscape Communicator. Configure your LDAP client with the local IP address of your server, port number 389, and the server root parameter shown below.
 
Server root  dc=focus,dc=demon,dc=nl