GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 348804
Evolution Exchange can't access GAL
Last modified: 2007-07-09 15:49:54 UTC
Please describe the problem: After setting up an exchange account it cannot access the GAL. The main reason is that it I can't use a user other than the owa user. After trying to access the AD's LDAP with the credientials used by evolution I found that AD on 2003 doesn't use the same user. For instance in OWA I have to auth as pendres but in order to access LDAP I have to use "Pablo Endres" with the same password. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Evolution 2. Setup an exchange account 3. try access the global contacts Actual results: I get an error that says: We were unable to open this addressbook. This either means you have entered an incorrect URI, or the server is unreachable. Expected results: I could query the GAL Does this happen every time? yes Other information: The easiest workaround would be to ask for another user when setting up the GAL server.
"Pablo Endres" is what you enter for "Full Name" field during accont set up?
Yes, that is the set value.
I am seeing the same issue. In AD 2003, by default, the CN (in ldap terms) is set to "Lastname, Firstname". I renamed the account to my username (samAccountName is the username that windows/owa uses I think) and this changed my cn to my username (the one I am using in evolution and OWA). I was sure this would fix my problem but it didn't so I am still at square one. I have verified that I can access my domain controller that has the GC on it on port 3268/tcp. I am not even sure if this is encrypted traffic or not but its time to do an ethereal session to see what's goin on. Anyone know what atribute contains the username that evolution is trying to query the GAL with? Thanks! Terry
Hi, I got this working. We had a visit from our MS consultants, I asked him for some help and this is what got it working: On the OWA URL remember to use the following format: http://Server/exchange/<mailbox> Set the apropiate GAL server, by the way after restarting evo after the first change this was setup automagiclly with the correct values. After that it works. Please update the docs so other people don't suffer the same 8th layer problem that I did.
I updated to Fedora 7 with the following versions installed: evolution-2.10.2-3.fc7 evolution-connector-2.10.2-2.fc7 After that with the same settings the GAL problem is back. This is my actual settings: Username: login@domain OWA URL: http://Server/exchange/<mailbox> GAL Server: server Everything else works OK. I get callendar, alerts, contacts on server, etc The error is back to: GC: Connecting to ldap://server:3268/ ** (evolution:3818): WARNING **: LDAP authentication failed (0x31) Any ideas?