Cannot get freebusy to work in Kontact

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Tue Jan 6 09:56:59 CET 2009


On Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2008, ITSEF Admin wrote:
> On Wednesday 8 October 2008 10:24:43 ITSEF Admin wrote:
> > I'm trying to get freebusy to work in my own Kontact (enterprise35) - so
> > far without luck.
>
> No ideas, anyone? I still can't use freebusy. I *think* it might have
> something to do with the interaction Kontact<->kwallet, but that's just a
> hunch. My Kontact simply does not send out the username/password needed to
> retrieve the freebusy information - and it does not ask for one, either, no
> matter what I do... I'll include the original description below for
> completeness.

My next step would be to check for more differences between the working and 
the none-working users.
E.g. kwallet settings or other kde settings.
Do I remember correctly that setting up the non-working users freshly again
with a new .kde will still give them the problems?

> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>
> > Here's what I see so far:
> >  > - We have several users for whom freebusy just works (same Kontact
>
> version
>
> > and no significant differences in korganizerrc, as far as I can see)
> > - For those users, the reqests I can see on the server (apache log)
> > include a login name
> > - If I use a browser to get the freebusy information "manually", I get
> > asked for a username and password. Once I supply them, I get the text.
> > Hence, freebusy does indeed work correctly on the server.
> > - In Settings -> Calendar -> Free/Busy -> Retrieve, I have set username
> > and password - however, none of those seems to get used by my client. The
> > username can be seen in korganizerrc, but it can never be seen in the
> > serverlogs.
> > - Restarting Kontact did not help
> >
> > Basically, it looks like "my" Kontact refuses to send the
> > username/password I have entered when trying to retrieve the freebusy
> > information. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea why, especially, as
> > it seems to work for other users with the same Kontact version.
> >
> > I have seen the Wiki article on the topic, but that does not seem to have
> > any clues. BTW: The Wiki article states that the URL for freebusy is
> > supposed to be "https://my-domain.de/freebusy/%EMAIL%.ifb". Is this still
> > correct for enterprise35? I'm asking 'cause all our users with working
> > freebusy have "https://my-domain.de/freebusy/" in there - which is the
> > way kolabwizard sets it.



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