Cannot get freebusy to work in Kontact

[ITSEF Admin]

On Wednesday 10 December 2008 17:46:10 ITSEF Admin wrote:
> Ok, it's definitely some problem in the interaction with KWallet. If I
> enter username *and* password in the freebusy config dialog
> (Settings-.Configure Calendar->Freebusy->Retrieve), it works. I know for
> certain that I used to get a KWallet dialog the first time I tried, upon
> which I could add the password to KWallet and be happy. However, for some
> odd reasons, Kontact seems to ignore KWallet completely right now - no idea
> why.

I'm back to square one. Despite this "fix" above, it stopped working again. 
Like before, my kontact just fails to send out the username.

Upon closer study of the apache logs on our Kolab server, however, I noticed 
something else: With those accounts where freebusy actually works, I see 
this:

[...]
HOST1.DOM.AIN - - [22/Jan/2009:11:10:17 
+0100] "GET /freebusy/NAME%40DOM.AIN.ifb HTTP/1.1" 401 489
HOST1.DOM.AIN - CLIENTUSER at DOM.AIN [22/Jan/2009:11:10:18 
+0100] "GET /freebusy/NAME%40DOM.AIN.ifb HTTP/1.1" 200 10320
[...]

i.e. the client gets a "401" first ("Authentication required"), retries with 
the username (and I suppose password) supplied, which results in "200" 
("Success").

When *I* try it with my client/account, the exchange looks like this:

[...]
HOST2.DOM.AIN - - [22/Jan/2009:12:26:28 +0100] "GET /freebusy/NAME2.ifb 
HTTP/1.1" 403 770
[...]

i.e. the server sends a "403" ("Forbidden") right away - my client doesn't 
even get the "401" (which, in turn, I expect to be the reason why the user 
name is never sent). Does that maybe ring a bell with someone?

@Bernhard: I even thought about wiping .kde (or at least all kontact related 
rc's in config) and starting afresh with my account - but I'm using a lot of 
custom settings (folder icons, views, etc.pp.) for the three accounts I 
have - restoring this manually would be quite painful... :-/

Cheerio,

Thomas