Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:34:17 -0800 From: BSDBluz <bsdluz@arcticfiber.net> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: GAL NTLM Support for Evolution-Exchange Port Message-ID: <1196289257.11765.38.camel@localhost>
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Dear FreeBSD Gnome Team: Sorry if I am sending you this e-mail in error. I am addressing this to you as your e-mail is listed as the contact for the "evolution-exchange" FBSD port. I have used FreeBSD for last 9+ years, and recently customized my corporate laptop to run FBSD 7.0-BETA3 (i386). Given that I use the laptop for corporate business I have to talk to an Exchange 2003 server in my daily line of work. Everything w/ Evolution is working fine, but I find that I cannot talk to the Global Address List (GAL). I did a fair bit of troubleshooting on this matter, and it seems the issue lies in the fact that the evolution-exchange port cannot properly detect NTLM support in the OpenLDAP client (which I also installed from ports). My Exchange server requires crypto for all ADS communications, so I cannot use plain text communication for this login. The evolution-exchange source code has an old hack for OpenLDAP NTLM support (found under the "docs" directory in the source code). This hack, however, is for OpenLDAP 2.2.x and the evolution-exchange port uses an OpenLDAP 2.3.x client. I understand that NTLM is now supported in OpenLDAP 2.3.x, at least by means SASL. I have confirmed that my SASL port does include NTLM support, and I went so far as to change out the default OpenLDAP client installed by evolution-exchange w/ the openldap-cyrus client. Still no go since evolution-exchange does does not detect OpenLDAP NTLM support during the config of the port. I have tested this set-up under both FBSD 6.2 and FreeBSD 7.0-BETA 2 & 3 for both the i386 and AMD64 platforms. Same result in every case. I am now at a dead-end on this issue. As such, I was wondering if you folks have any known work-around for this issue. GAL access in Evolution is very important for me, so I would GREATLY appreciate any thoughts that you might have on this matter. I appreciate your time in reviewing this matter,and I look forward to your reply. Respectfully, Drew Berendts, CISSP T-Mobile USA, Inc.
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