Chris Curran wrote: > Thanks Jeff. I already have Tbird logging into FDS Tbird logging into FDS? What does that mean? > - what I don't have is any info showing up in Tbird. Further, I tried > to export my current data From what system? From OpenLDAP? > so that I could see what FDS is expecting, but it errors out on > 'userroot' with "export failed (-1)". Can you tell me how to reproduce this error? > > As to digging around in the log files... That's not really an option. > We were evaluating FDS with the object being to purchase RHDS... Being > fresh back from an hour long meeting, well, the edict from above is to > find complete documentation on how to make FDS/RHDS interoperate with > Tbird or drop the project. There does not exist "officially supported" documentation either from Fedora or Red Hat or Mozilla. You might be able to find something with Google. I would be surprised if there were officially supported documentation from any Directory Server vendor with respect to Thunderbird integration since it's relatively new. > > thanks, > Chris Curran > > On 8/2/05, Jeff Clowser <jclowser at unitedmessaging.com > <mailto:jclowser at unitedmessaging.com>> wrote: > > It all depends on your client apps. Client apps, in this case, are > pretty much anything that talks to the directory server (i.e. > thunderbird, a mail server that uses ldap for user info, etc.). > > In the case of using thunderbird as an addressbook client: > 1. click on the addressbook button. > 2. under the file menu, select new->LDAP Directory > 3. For the name, put a name, like "Corporate directory". For > hostname, > put the name of your ldap server. For basedn, put the suffix (top of > your tree). Set the port number to whatever you configed directory > server for (probably leave as 389). > 4. If you don't have anonymous access (I think the default aci's > leave > it on), enter the dn of your account (probably something like > uid=jdoe,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com). > > Save that, and you should now be able to use that directory when > composing email (by clicking "contacts"). > > That configs thunderbird to look at the directory. You have to > populate > the directory server with users then, and there are lots of ways to do > that, such as console, ldif, etc. I think Thunderbird probably only > looks at objectclass=person or something like that - look at the > directory server access logs to see exactly what it is looking for to > find entries, then put users in that match that and meet schema > requirements. > > For a purely contact type entry, probably something that is > objectclass > top, person, organizationalperson, and inetorgperson would do > it. Then > populate things like givenname, cn, sn, mail, telephonenumber, > facsimiletelephonenumber, mobile (aka cell), pager, l (aka city), st, > street, postaladdress, postalcode, etc. Start with creating a user in > console, then figure out what data you want to see, then figure > out what > attribute is appropriate and add it. > > - Jeff > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >-- >Fedora-directory-users mailing list >Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20050802/82b73477/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3312 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20050802/82b73477/attachment.bin
