GAL NTLM Support for Evolution-Exchange Port

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 29 10:26:01 PST 2007


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BSDBluz wrote:
> Dear FreeBSD Gnome Team:
> 
> Sorry if I am sending you this e-mail in error. I am addressing this to
> you as your e-mail is listed as the contact for the "evolution-exchange"
> FBSD port. I have used FreeBSD for last 9+ years, and recently
> customized my corporate laptop to run FBSD 7.0-BETA3 (i386). Given that
> I use the laptop for corporate business I have to talk to an Exchange
> 2003 server in my daily line of work. Everything w/ Evolution is working
> fine, but I find that I cannot talk to the Global Address List (GAL). I
> did a fair bit of troubleshooting on this matter, and it seems the issue
> lies in the fact that the evolution-exchange port cannot properly detect
> NTLM support in the OpenLDAP client (which I also installed from ports).
> My Exchange server requires crypto for all ADS communications, so I
> cannot use plain text communication for this login. The
> evolution-exchange source code has an old hack for OpenLDAP NTLM support
> (found under the "docs" directory in the source code). This hack,
> however, is for OpenLDAP 2.2.x and the evolution-exchange port uses an
> OpenLDAP 2.3.x client. I understand that NTLM is now supported in
> OpenLDAP 2.3.x, at least by means SASL. I have confirmed that my SASL
> port does include NTLM support, and I went so far as to change out the
> default OpenLDAP client installed by evolution-exchange w/ the
> openldap-cyrus client. Still no go since evolution-exchange does does
> not detect OpenLDAP NTLM support during the config of the port. I have
> tested this set-up under both FBSD 6.2 and FreeBSD 7.0-BETA 2 & 3 for
> both the i386 and AMD64 platforms. Same result in every case.

What do you mean that evo-exchange does not detect the OpenLDAP NTLM
support?  What errors do you get?  Where is the config.log?

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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