General questions about Kolab

Aurelien Marchand aurelien.marchand at researchcapital.com
Thu Apr 8 21:04:36 CEST 2004


Hi all,

I still have those questions that remain unanswered. If you've had 
experience with Kolab's LDAP or with Toltec Connector, could you have a 
look and share your experience?

thx again

> I would also like to tie the samba PDC to the Kolab's LDAP backend. 
> Basically, when a client wants to log on, he queries the samba PDC 
> which in turn, using LDAP would query the Kolab server to see if they 
> have an account on it. I just don't know if samba can make use of 
> Kolab's LDAP backend (I've read somewhere the LDAP structure for Kolab 
> is quite incompatible with everything else - that too may be wrong).
>

>
> I have also a concern that if you use Toltec or any other plugin for 
> Outlook to connect to Kolab, you'd have to manually enter the password 
> either each time you check your mail or each time you reset a client's 
> password. Obviously, it would terrific if Outlook would get its 
> credentials silently from the samba PDC (and thus from the Kolab 
> server). I just don't know if it is possible. What is your experience 
> with those plugins?
>

Aurelien




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