Integration of Kolab with Active Directory

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Antony Raj <antony.java at gmail.com>:

> Bernard,
>
> Thanks for your response. I tried searching to get a page that talks  
> about Active Directory,
> I couldn't find any.
> Do I have access to that code, so that I can test it?

The ad code is part of perl kolab (see also our cvs:  
http://kolab.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs-kolab.cgi/server/perl-kolab/lib/Kolab/LDAP/Backend/ad.pm)

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> I understand that I will have to add Kolab specific attribute into
> Active Directory, but I would like to know where all I would be
> expected to change the configuration?
> Am I expected to change the code for the same as well?
>
> With Warm Regards
> Antony Raj.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Bernhard
> Reiter  dir=\"ltr\"><bernhard.reiter at intevation.de[1]> wrote:
>  0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;\" class=\"gmail_quote\">
class=\"Ih2E3d\">On Wednesday 01 October 2008 16:57, Gunnar Wrobel
> wrote:
> > Quoting Antony Raj <antony.java at gmail.com[2]>:
>    > > Is there a documentation
> that states the integration of Kolab with
> > > Active Directory?
> > >
> > > If there is, please let me know about it?
> >
> > Hm, I personally don't know of such documents but as we have
> code  > specific to AD there might be such a thing.
> >
> > Bernhard?
>   I am not aware of such a document.
> Did you try searching the wiki and the mailing archives?
>  The South African company Codefusion (which does not exist anymore
> for other
> reasons) did a couple of projects coupling AD and Kolab Server,
> that is were
> the source code came from, it probably needs a retest. There was a
> proprietary product claiming to couple Kolab Server and AD once,
> but I had no
> experience with it.
>  At the core Active Directory is a directory server also offering
> LDAP.
> Kolab Server can be coupled with many directory servers that speak
> LDAP, you
> need to put in the additional attributes, make sure you get
> triggered on
> changes and decide which management interface to use. (That is the
> basic
> work-schedule for such a project.)
>  Bernhard
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