Evo and Exchange

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 08:27, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 15:19 -0700, Jamie Bohr wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Does any one have the Exchange connector working in FC3?  If so please
> > share what you did.
> 
> Works for me.  A good test is to try using Outlook Web Access; try
> browsing to http://YOUR-EXCHANHE-SERVER-HERE/exchange and seeing if you
> can use the web interface.

There are a few problems with the connector versions. It does not work
for me either. There is a patch that will make it work, and it's
supposed to be in CVS, but it does not give you the calendering
functions.

I'm still on 1.4.6 because evo connector on version 2 is still lacking.

Refer to this:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=66926


> 
> If that works, but you can't connect using Evolution's connector in FC3,
> please file a bug in Red Hat's bugzilla against evolution-connector.
> 
> HTH; good luck!
> 
> Dave Malcolm
> 
> > 
> > I am having major issues getting Evo to talk to an Exchange server.  I
> > have a RH9 system that works fine with the connector so I at least
> > have some experience on getting it working - I think.  Nothing but
> > problems with Evo 2.  I have looked at
> > http://forums.novell.com/group/novell.support.ximian.connector/readerNoFrame.tpt/@thread@23@F@10@D-,D@ALL/@article@23
> > 
> > The above site susggests running 
> > 
> > /usr/sbin/bonobo-activation-sysconf
> > --add-directory=/usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers
> > 
> > The directory /usr/local/lib/bobobo does not exists in FC3 so I ran
> > 
> > /usr/sbin/bonobo-activation-sysconf --add-directory=/usr/lib/bonobo/servers
> > 
> > I am still getting the error message 
> > 
> > Could not connect to Evolution Exchange backend process:
> > No such file or directory
> > 
> > Here is some information about my install:
> > 
> > $ rpm -qa | egrep 'libbonobo|evolution'
> > evolution-data-server-1.0.2-3
> > libbonobo-2.8.0-2
> > libbonoboui-2.8.0.99cvs20040929-2
> > evolution-webcal-1.0.10-1
> > evolution-connector-2.0.2-1
> > evolution-2.0.2-3
> > $
> > 
> > I did install the connector after my inital install, should that
> > affect how it works?  Someone please help, I know there are other
> > users having the same issue.
> > 
> > Should I file a bug report against FC3?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> >    Jamie
> > 

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