[Kde-pim] Akonadi + LDAP: changes not saved to LDAP server

[Gary Greene]

On 12/11/09 6:58 AM, "Robin Atwood" <robin at binro.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 10 December 2009, Robin Atwood wrote:
>> On Thursday 10 December 2009, Will Stephenson wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 18:02:40 Tobias Koenig wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:47:08PM +0700, Robin Atwood wrote:
>>>> Hej Robin,
>>>> 
>>>>> So I carried out a very simple experiment. In kaddressbook I select
>>>>> the Akonadi->LDAP address book and change one entry. I then save the
>>>>> change and restart kaddressbook and view the entry via Akonadi and
>>>>> the change is still there. I then deselect the Akonadi->LDAP view and
>>>>> select the direct LDAP address book and the change is gone. So my
>>>>> conclusion is that changes go into some akonadi cache but never make
>>>>> it to the LDAP server. Is this some little restriction I was not
>>>>> aware of or a rather large oversight?
>>>> 
>>>> The LDAP resource has not been ported to Akonadi yet, you use the old
>>>> LDAP resource via the compatibility bridges...
>>>> And yes, Akonadi caches the contacts you write into it. The real
>>>> problem here seems to be, that the contacts are not written back
>>>> correctly by the LDAP resource through the compatibility bridges...
>>> 
>>> Also make sure that the compatibility resource is not readonly.  This bit
>>>  me with Zanshin, since libakonadi doesn't enforce access control.
>> 
>> No, the resources are not read-only. The problem becomes more obvious when
>>  you access the LDAP server from another machine on the LAN; the updates
>>  are not seen. Should I then skip using akonadi until LDAP resource is is
>>  ported?
> 
> I carried out some more tests using the kaddressbook->LDAP direct interface
> and phpldapadmin. Changes made via either route are reflected in the other
> one, so the original LDAP support is still working OK, it's the akonadi back-
> end that is the problem.
> 
> HTH :)
> -Robin

Can anyone work with me off list to test the LDAP stuff working, since I've
tried several things and cannot get it to work properly with the LDAP
interface for AD. Thanks.
 

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