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RE: Problems with OpenLDAP clients querying MS Exchange
I don't know if this will help, but I've just spent some frustrating time
trying to get through to an Exchange server with LDAP. The first issue is
that the base dn for the search is not what I expected it to be - it doesn't
have the country part. (You can check what the o=... part should be by
checking what exchange thinks the X400 address of a user is.)
Even when I got this right, I couldn't talk to one of the five exchange
servers we have here; the query would just hang, with no output or errors
reported. The other servers worked fine. According to our Exchange admin
people, the configuration for each is identical, with one exception: the
server which doesn't work is used as a disaster recovery machine, so it
doesn't have any user mailboxes; the directory information is replicated to
it from the other machines, which also replicate with each other.
While we're talking about exchange, does anyone know whether it is possible
to replicate the directory information from an exchange server onto an ldap
server - and if so, how do you go about it?
Simon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Melville [SMTP:robmel@nadt.org.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 7:34 AM
> To: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Problems with OpenLDAP clients querying MS Exchange
>
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to use LDAP to search the directory on our corporate email
> server (MS Exchange 5.0 running on NT 3.5.1). This is to provide access
> for
> our departmental users to organisation-wide addresses. The intention is to
> create a search cgi (to be run by Apache on FreeBSD).
>
> OpenLDAP 'ldapsearch' and Umich clients (for each of unix, Windows and
> Mac)
> fail with a 'Protocol error' message. 'Ud' also seems unable to browse the
> searchbase, just hangs. However, it must be possible because a trial
> version of 'WS-Ping' seems able to get meaningful results, as does
> Navigator 4.5 I believe.
>
> It's (very) possible that I'm doing something stupid, but I wondered if
> anyone had had success using these tools to search MS Exchange, and if so
> how they went about it.
>
> Please reply directly, as I haven't subscribed to the list.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Robin.
>
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