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?
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