[wellylug] Evolution 2 + Exchange Plugin

Bill Christiansen bill.christiansen at paradise.net.nz
Thu Oct 28 16:00:23 NZDT 2004


It was mentioned on the Ubuntu user list that there is currently a bug
with the Exchange connector for Evolution.

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 11:47 +1300, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> Got it...
> 
> I now need to specify my username in the following format
> 
> ADNAME\chris
> 
> Cheers for the advise..
> 
> The connector set up application spat up an error advising me of what I
> might like to do...
> 
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 11:25 +1300, David Antliff wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> > > When I click on Contacts and go into the Global Address book, I get an
> > > error that says:
> > >
> > > ***
> > > Error Loading the Global Address List
> > > We were unable to open this addressbook.  This either means you have
> > > entered an incorrect URL or the server is unreachable
> > > ***
> > >
> > > In the settings area, I have entered the Global Address list / Active
> > > Directory , and Global Catalog Server name, but yeah..
> > 
> > I use evolution-2.0.2 and ximian-connector-2.0.2 with Gentoo and an 
> > exchange server and it works perfectly, except for one thing:
> > 
> > In the Contacts window, I cannot get a full listing of all contacts. This 
> > is a known issue apparently. Searching using 'find' and autocomplete work 
> > fine. I'm quite impressed with it actually. I don't see your error.
> > 
> > Try the ximian-connector-setup program if you get stuck, although it 
> > sounds like the OWA interface is (mostly) working for you already.
> > 
> > There's a fair bit of stuff on forums.gentoo.org - just search for 
> > 'ximian-connector'. In fact, almost any Linux question you can think of is 
> > answered by those forums. I use it before turning to Google...
> > 
> > -- 
> > David.
> > 
> > 
> -- 
> Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com>
> 
> 




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