Re: OpenLDAP as an address book for MS Outlook

[Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>]

Cl?ment OUDOT wrote:
> >
> > When I try to browse an addresslist from Outlook, the OpenLDAP server
> > gives the following error:
> >
> >
> > Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
> >     LDAPMessage searchResDone(11) inappropriateMatching (serverSort control: No ordering rule) [0 results]
> >         messageID: 11
> >         protocolOp: searchResDone (5)
> >             searchResDone
> >                 resultCode: inappropriateMatching (18)
> >                 matchedDN:
> >                 errorMessage: serverSort control: No ordering rule
> >         [Response To: 6]
> >         [Time: 0.002066000 seconds]
> >
> >
> > What is this error? Could someone please interpret it? I almost believe that if I can get rid of it, I
> > will have a browseable addresslist in Outlook.
> 
> As I already replied :
> 
> 
> the problem can be that Outlook use SSSVLV controls on attributes
> without ordering rules in OpenLDAP. Unfortunately, the 'name'
> attribute has no ordering rules,  so you can't sort results on name
> (this includes, cn, sn, gn attributes, because they inherit from
> name). We do not have this limitation on AD (but it breaks LDAP
> standard).

I don't care about LDAP standard in this particular installation. 
I need an OpenLDAP server at this site only as a shared address book,
it will perform no other function and will never interoperate with
anything else.

> 
> 
> You can't use server side sort control on cn or sn in OpenLDAP, this
> will always return an error because there is no ordering rule for
> these attributes.

So if OpenLDAP can be tweaked to provide server side sort control on
cn or sn, I would go for it. Can it be done by modifying the 'name'
attribute in the core.schema? Or by a patch?

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru