[horde] group shares and Active Directory

[Gonçal Badenes]

On 10/01/2011 15:09, Jan Schneider wrote:
> Zitat von Goncal Badenes <goncal.badenes at icfo.es>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> we do not manage to get group shares working with our active 
>> directory backend. The groups are listed OK in the 
>> Administration->Groups section, but the system does not manage to 
>> find out which groups a particular user is member of.
>>
>> In particular, we experience the following behaviour:
>> - The list of groups that the users see when they try to share any 
>> resource (calendar, task, etc.) is empty unless we set 
>> $conf['share']['any_group'] = true;
>> - Even if the option above is set to "true", the user cannot access 
>> the shared resource. I assume this is because the system does not 
>> actually realise which groups the logged on user is member of.
>>
>> I have seen related messages in the mailing list (e.g. 
>> http://lists.horde.org/archives/horde/Week-of-Mon-20090608/037714.html, 
>> http://lists.horde.org/archives/horde/Week-of-Mon-20080114/034478.html, 
>> or 
>> http://lists.horde.org/archives/dev/Week-of-Mon-20080114/022588.html), but 
>> so far could not find any solution or workaround for the problem.
>>
>> Does anyone have suggestions or tips?
>
> Someone who experiences this needs to track it further down, or hire 
> someone who does. The crucial method is probably 
> Group_ldap::getGroupMemberships().
>
> Jan.
>
Thanks for the pointer! I'll certainly look into it.

Cheers,

     Gonçal