OpenLDAP

[justyn.pride]

I’m wanting to setup a central list of contacts that the client address books can access. These details would be for none client accounts, and would be just normal address book items, but obviously shareable in our network. I’m assuming that OpenLDAP is the way forward? Has anyone done this, and is there a nice gui that would help me with this? I’d like to also be able to have a copy of the addressbook on the clients as well.

Is this all possible? Does anyone have any helpful links / articles.

Justyn

[justyn.pride]

I’ve just found this app on the web – http://j2anywhere.com/ . Has anyone used it, and able to recommend it?

[darkstar]

I can second that. I set up an address book server about a year ago with their software and it is pretty slick. Except for a bit of LDAP-related hair pulling, I learned quite a bit more about LDAP in the process.

Since then they’ve come out with a little sync control app that resides in the system prefs page on your machine. I haven’t used that part much, but from what I saw it works well, too.

FWIW, I set my address book server up on a regular 10.4 client. It can be done on a machine running Tiger Server and Open Directory, but I haven’t attempted that yet.

If you’re looking for an out-of-the-box solution, Kerio’s mail server does a great job syncing up with Tiger Server and OD. (And addressbook and mac.com, too.)

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