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[OX User] Photocopier talking to openldap

Bret Hughes bhughes at elevating.com
Thu Sep 28 16:31:59 CEST 2006


Glad I could help.

Bret

Rob Myroon wrote:
> That local4 line was what I was looking for. It's logging now. Thanks 
> Bret.
>
> Bret Hughes wrote:
>> I believe slapd logs to the local4 facility add something like
>>
>> #save slapd logs seperately
>> local4.*                                                
>> /var/log/slapd.log
>>
>> to /etc/syslog.conf  or where ever your syslog config file is.
>>
>> you will also need to prod syslog to reread its conf file.   service 
>> syslog restart will do on on most sysV boxes I believe.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Bret
>>
>> Rob Myroon wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply.
>>>
>>> Yes I am using openldap. And I have set up Thunderbird properly to 
>>> talk to openldap. Our Canon 2620 copier is able to scan and send 
>>> documents to e-mail addresses and it can talk to ldap directories so 
>>> I thought it would be nice if I could get the copier to talk to 
>>> openldap and get the e-mail addresses of our users and contacts. 
>>> (Instead of me entering everyone's e-mail address into the copier.)
>>>
>>> I know this doesn't have anything to do with openexchange but I 
>>> thought I would ask if anyone has tried to do this sort of thing. I 
>>> have tried every combination of strings in the copier setup but 
>>> can't get it to work.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the idea about the ldap log level. I added "loglevel 256" 
>>> to slapd.conf and restarted openldap. Where does the output go? I 
>>> looked in /var/log/messages but nothing seems to be going there. My 
>>> syslogd is running.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter Schober wrote:
>>>> * 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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