OpenLDAP woes

[Joe Tseng]

Check out the section called "Share Email Contacts" in the link below:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/8119/print

hth

 - Joe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timothy Murphy" <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:05 AM
Subject: OpenLDAP woes


>
> I asked a couple of weeks ago for advice on a LAN-wide address-book,
> and several people suggested I look at LDAP.
>
> I did this, and it does indeed look like the best solution,
> as kmail and other mail clients seem to accept addresses from LDAP 
> servers.
>
> Unfortunately, the openLDAP documentation seems horrendously bad.
> I found a few useful web-sites, particularly
> "Build an LDAP-based address book",
> at <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-linuxldap-i.html>,
> "Building an Address Book with OpenLDAP"
> at <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/03/27/ldap_ab.html>,
> and also <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ch5>.
>
> But I'm left with a few small queries,
> and am wondering if many Fedora users have gone down this path?
> Also, I wonder if there is a mailing list or newsgroup
> devoted to this topic, for newbies?