Been there done that and I never got the t shirt :) it's a horrid path to go down, yes it's simple when you know how to do it as some one told me when I was busy with the setup, but my anserw was that anything is simple when you know how to do it, but the docs around setting up a simple address book is horrid and it seriously needs a lot of work, I am looking at putting together a simple how to and post up on my server, but it would be better if I could post it on a wiki that people actually use. Kind regards Per Qvindesland On Tuesday 03 July 2007 04:05:04 pm Timothy Murphy wrote: > I asked a couple of weeks ago for advice on a LAN-wide address-book, > and several people suggested I look at LDAP. > > I did this, and it does indeed look like the best solution, > as kmail and other mail clients seem to accept addresses from LDAP servers. > > Unfortunately, the openLDAP documentation seems horrendously bad. > I found a few useful web-sites, particularly > "Build an LDAP-based address book", > at <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-linuxldap-i.html>, > "Building an Address Book with OpenLDAP" > at <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/03/27/ldap_ab.html>, > and also <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ch5>. > > But I'm left with a few small queries, > and am wondering if many Fedora users have gone down this path? > Also, I wonder if there is a mailing list or newsgroup > devoted to this topic, for newbies? > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
