Topic: address book and bookmarks sharing

[alex4evr]

The ldap directory is unfortunately unaccessible from MS outlook and only available for reading from windows address book. I am looking for a parallel ldap application allowing me to share my contacts on several computers on my lan and perhaps from internet. Also a bookmark manager and sharing application accessible from both local network and internet would be great.
I appreciate a lot your help.

Alex...

[mrjhb3]

The ldap directory is unfortunately unaccessible from MS outlook and only available for reading from windows address book. I am looking for a parallel ldap application allowing me to share my contacts on several computers on my lan and perhaps from internet. Also a bookmark manager and sharing application accessible from both local network and internet would be great.
I appreciate a lot your help.

Alex...

Search the forums for the outlook issue, there have been a few posts on how to get outlook to work with the ldap directory on SME 7.  I think people have only tested this on the local lan and not from the outside.  Not sure what you mean by a bookmark manager.  I use Trean which is one of the horde add-on modules.  I save my browser bookmarks in trean, then no matter where I am at, as long as I can login to my webmail, I have my bookmarks, you can share those with other webmail users, as well as import and export them.  I can get kind of ugly if you have a lot of bookmarks, but for me, it's doing the job.

JB

[Agent86]

The ldap directory is unfortunately unaccessible from MS outlook and only available for reading from windows address book. I am looking for a parallel ldap application allowing me to share my contacts on several computers on my lan and perhaps from internet. Also a bookmark manager and sharing application accessible from both local network and internet would be great.
I appreciate a lot your help.

Alex...

Not related to outlook, and will not do mail, but does have a contact manager, and nice bookmark features which can allow users to make them public or private, so you can regulate which bookmarks you want visible by other users, and which ones you want private.

Brim script has this and also I believe egroupware will do it, but SME needs to give temp write access for them to work properly at least thats what I've concluded cause I can't get the import portion to work properly.

Here is mine running on SME, but can't import anything yet, it's not working properly.
Someone who knows better might have better luck.
my site:
www.foolishlys.com/brim
login AgentZ86 pass guest

the authors demo site:
http://www.brim-project.org/

Anyhow, it's not related to getting the addressbook in SME to be global with web access, but it will at least give a few ideas.

Only thing is no email sysem yet.

[alex4evr]

Thnak you guyes for this useful information... Can we have a detailed HOWTO for the brim project???

[Agent86]

There is a Readme file in the Brim Project download

And it's pretty straight forward, but as a inexperienced linux user I had to get some advise for the setting up the database part:

follow the instructions, but:
I didn't actually put all the files into a brim folder. What I did was create an ibay called brim, then put all the brim files in the html folder so that when I bring it up it will be at my address: www.myaddress.com/brim

But if you follow brim instructions you will end up with the location at: www.myaddress.com/brim/brim

So I changed it and just dumped everything into the html folder of the ibay that I created, and in my case it was brim.

Anyhow as far as the instructions go, I personally ran into a problem with the database part, so I posted on contrib and catus clarified for me as described below and I further clarified for myself since I am an intermediate noob

Catus reply below:

Login by terminal access as root without a password:
Code:
mysql -u root

Get hold of the database name,, think of a username and a password so we can create it using the following statements:
Code:
grant all privileges on database.* to 'username'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
flush privileges;
quit

My reply below:

Edited:

Ahhaaa Sooooo I've found that database=actual database name
Ahhaaa Soooo I've found that root@localhost=actualusername@local host
Ahaaaa Sooo I've found that password=actual password selection

So now this should work, however with SME I'm having some trouble appearantly with the way SME work with security and how many scripts need to write to the temp/ or tmp folder on the server.

So in this case it all works fine exept the importing of data but I'll get that worked out soon.

Also FYI the Conflux listed on the  Conrib/how to's seems to be a nice package as well and does bookmarks and contact management and a whole lot more, but perhaps a bit too much for what I need it for, anyhow I may try it out next and only use the features I need, also only 5 users free license then you pay for extra users, but a good pricing for something like this though.

Anyhow hope this helps

Now if I could just get the script to import or write to the temp file, or perhaps get the temp file to accept writing etc. I'm not sure what to do about this at this point, but I'm responding to the scipt author and he is very helpful, and fast response.

Well thats all I know


 

[cactus]

Now if I could just get the script to import or write to the temp file, or perhaps get the temp file to accept writing etc. I'm not sure what to do about this at this point, but I'm responding to the scipt author and he is very helpful, and fast response.

Not being able to write in the ./tmp folder is a safety feature, you are only allowed to write within subdirectories of your tree. Why not create a directory called var or upload or something and give it chmod it to be world readable and writeable by www (the apache user).

If you really want to unlock the temp folder do a search for PHPBaseDir on the forum, this will get you started.

[cactus]

If you really want to unlock the temp folder do a search for PHPBaseDir on the forum, this will get you started.

Actually it is the last entry in the Troubleshooting FAQ

[Agent86]

Please describe in some detail about creating a var you mentioned.

I've issued the command as shown in the troubleshooting FAQ and this worked perfect.

So please describe what security issues might come of this, well for this particular script, the only thing that is going to the temp that I know of is when importing bookmarks, and only as temp space.

Anyhow thanks again for the help.

Please advise
Thanks