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Sunday, July 22, 2007
9:03:00 AM EDT
This was my starting point, but Mandriva provides a wizard to get this started. In retrospect they were not entirely compatible as they use different naming conventions. I used the online info but changed "addressbook" into "People" "Manager" into "root".
I needed to add the Thunderbird schema. I found a useful script to help convert the ldif export from Thurderbird so that it can be ldapadd-ed. The last line needed to be changed to:
s/objectclass: mozillaAbPerson/objectclass: mozillaOrgPerson/;
To enable Mac's Addressbook.app to read, I need to add the apple.schema to my ldap.conf. I then need this on how to rearrange it and had to uncomment several elements in samba.schema.
To enable uploading of address info from the Mac I turned to ABxLDAP.
This did not work out of the box, but the author advised to use the old abxldap schema for the time being and (aside from endless config mistakes on my side) worked.
The end result is, however, not yet satisfactory. I don't at the moment see very careful synchronisation. If I capitalise a letter in a name for example, that does not seem to be propagated (although the address book is now right). Likewise, I seem to get entries left in the LDAP server even when the original has been deleted. But it does seem to be a useful start.
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9:03:00 AM EDT
Centralised address book using LDAP
This was my starting point, but Mandriva provides a wizard to get this started. In retrospect they were not entirely compatible as they use different naming conventions. I used the online info but changed "addressbook" into "People" "Manager" into "root".
I needed to add the Thunderbird schema. I found a useful script to help convert the ldif export from Thurderbird so that it can be ldapadd-ed. The last line needed to be changed to:
s/objectclass: mozillaAbPerson/objectclass: mozillaOrgPerson/;
To enable Mac's Addressbook.app to read, I need to add the apple.schema to my ldap.conf. I then need this on how to rearrange it and had to uncomment several elements in samba.schema.
To enable uploading of address info from the Mac I turned to ABxLDAP.
This did not work out of the box, but the author advised to use the old abxldap schema for the time being and (aside from endless config mistakes on my side) worked.
The end result is, however, not yet satisfactory. I don't at the moment see very careful synchronisation. If I capitalise a letter in a name for example, that does not seem to be propagated (although the address book is now right). Likewise, I seem to get entries left in the LDAP server even when the original has been deleted. But it does seem to be a useful start.
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