* Rob Myroon <rob.myroon at tartan.ca> [2006-09-27 01:02]:
> Has anyone tried to get their photocopier to talk to their ldap
> server? We have a Canon 2620. The documentation gives instructions
> on how to connect to ms, ibm, and novell ldap servers. I have tried
> every combination of settings that I can think of but can't get it
> to work.

I know nothing about photocopiers but OpenLDAP (which I assume you're
using, since you're obviously not using "ms, ibm, and novell ldap
servers") is (among) the most standards complient LDAP server(s) out
there.
so I guess it's not a matter of interoperability, but configuration.

but since you fail to give any useful information on your setup
(involved DNs, ACLs, log files with error codes, etc.) there's no way
anyone could actually help.
also note that this has nothing to do with OX since it applies to
anyone using that Canon with an OpenLDAP DSA, and very vry likely it
also has nothing to do the way OpenLDAP implements the relevant
standards (e.g. RFC 4510).

I suggest to:
* make sure you can bind from some other host (workstation, PC) to
  your DSA with openldap command line tools like ldapwhoami(1).
* configure your DSA with a loglevel of at least 256 (man slapd.conf)
  to see what is being sent from your Canon and setup the Canon to use
  the parameters that worked for you in the seup above.

if you cannot get ldapwhoami to work from a workstation it's probably
no use meddling with the Canon.

mfg,
-p.schober

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