Re: What next?

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Chris,

The mozilla website lists what LDAP attributes Thunderbird uses on this page:

   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/ldap.html

You can add users through the console by going into the "Directory" tab, right clicking on the container that you want to create your user in, and selecting "new -> user". This will allow you to fill in all of the basic data that Thunderbird will look for. If you want to add some other attribute, just click on the "advanced" button in the new user dialog to add it to the entry.

-NGK

Chris Curran wrote:

Thanks Jeff. I already have Tbird logging into FDS - what I don't have is any info showing up in Tbird. Further, I tried to export my current data so that I could see what FDS is expecting, but it errors out on 'userroot' with "export failed (-1)".

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.

thanks,
Chris Curran

On 8/2/05, *Jeff Clowser* <jclowser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jclowser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> 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


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