Topic: LDAP and Horde

[edform]

I used John Bennets script to install the Horde 3 applications on my SME6.1.01 server, and have been ploughing through them trying to design a groupware system for a client. Everything seems to work well and I'm convinced the system will do just about everything my client needs.

There is one problem for which I spent  quite a while on the Horde newsgroups looking for a solution with no luck. Then I realised it's almost certainly an SME problem. John's install makes two address books as standard: a personal book and a company book. The latter of the two is actually a view of the LDAP directory of the SME server itself and though it has a dialogue for adding new entries, these additions always fail with a message along the lines...

There was an error adding the new contact. Contact your system administrator for further help.Failed to add an object: [34] "Invalid DN syntax" DN: cn=joe soap, (attributes: [a:6:{s:2:"cn";s:8:"joe soap";s:4:"mail";s:27:"joe.soap@theformsonline.com";s:9:"homephone";
s:12:"01449 723106";s:17:"homepostaladdress";s:20:"The Oaks, oakington";s:3:"uid";s:51:"20060128143904.gtb2hnccfm0@ml350.theformsonline.com";
s:11:"objectclass";a:4:{i:0;s:3:"top";i:1;s:6:"person";i:2;
s:20:"organizationalPerson";i:3;s:13:"inetOrgPerson";}}]).Charset:UTF-8

I seem to remember that the LDAP service is locked down in SME and only ever reflects the registered users. SO I have two questions...

1. Can the LDAP book be unlocked and used with Horde for general shared contacts?

2. Is it wise to do so?

ed Form

[mrjhb3]

Ahh, the install does the same thing that previous sme installs did.  You have always had a personal and a company-wide address book.  Don't know about the ldap piece.

JB