[sync] Question on LDAP Address Book Sources

[Deven Phillips, CISSP, CCNA]

Ben,

    How are you exposing the LDAP address book to the SyncML clients?
When I try to sync, it doesn't even try to use the LDAP address book.

Deven

Ben Klang wrote:
>
> On Mar 22, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Deven Phillips, CISSP, CCNA wrote:
>
>> I have my Turba module configured to point to an LDAP directory for an 
>> Address Book. Is it possible to get this to sync via SyncML?
>
> I have had some initial success doing this.  The information for each 
> contact is getting syncronized between my Treo 650 and my LDAP tree.  
> However the name field is getting mangled.  I'm fairly certain it has 
> something to do with the way LDAP stores names (typically using cn and 
> sn, where the cn attribute often has both the first and last names and 
> the sn attribute only has the last name).  I've spent zero time so far 
> trying to correct the problem, but I suspect this can be relatively 
> easily worked around.  If you do come up with a good solution, please 
> do report your success as I'd be interested in a "known good" 
> Turba+LDAP configuration.
>
> /BAK/
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