Comments on: Work: Frustration resolved (or relocated) http://followingedge.com/blog/2005/09/work-frustration-resolved-or-relocated/ Observations on technology, family, farm and life by Michael Moore and family. Sat, 19 May 2012 02:01:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: wesley wright http://followingedge.com/blog/2005/09/work-frustration-resolved-or-relocated/#comment-1048 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:24:55 +0000 http://followingedge.com/blog/2005/09/work-frustration-resolved-or-relocated/#comment-1048 I feel your pain. Went through similar exercise yesterday. Our university (of Vermont) uses "NetIDs", which in LDAP terminology amount to UIDs. Nothing on our LDAP scema corresponding to any IM service. Using Directory Access, I confgured LDAPv3 to use our university's openLDAP server (rfc 2307). In People mappings, mapped local IMHandle to LDAP uid. Shows up in Address Book as you would expect. Unfortunately, this is interpreted ONLY as AIM info, so if you lookup "Smith" in iChat AIM buddy window, it grabs the persons IMHandle, which is never anyone's AIM screen name ; if you lookup "Smith" in Jabber buddy window, get right Name, Address, and email, but leaves Jabber ID blank. Grrr. I feel your pain. Went through similar exercise yesterday.

Our university (of Vermont) uses "NetIDs", which in LDAP terminology amount to UIDs. Nothing on our LDAP scema corresponding to any IM service.

Using Directory Access, I confgured LDAPv3 to use our university's openLDAP server (rfc 2307). In People mappings, mapped local IMHandle to LDAP uid. Shows up in Address Book as you would expect. Unfortunately, this is interpreted ONLY as AIM info, so if you lookup "Smith" in iChat AIM buddy window, it grabs the persons IMHandle, which is never anyone's AIM screen name ; if you lookup "Smith" in Jabber buddy window, get right Name, Address, and email, but leaves Jabber ID blank. Grrr.

]]> by: Michael http://followingedge.com/blog/2005/09/work-frustration-resolved-or-relocated/#comment-955 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:48:42 +0000 http://followingedge.com/blog/2005/09/work-frustration-resolved-or-relocated/#comment-955 ajb- We're actually working on customizing the open-source Adium Instant Messenging client to get the features we're after. The issue with iChat is that so many of our staff will use it as their "client of choice", since it's got a "slick" interface and is pre-installed on their Mac. Slick interface? Bah! ajb- We're actually working on customizing the open-source Adium Instant Messenging client to get the features we're after. The issue with iChat is that so many of our staff will use it as their "client of choice", since it's got a "slick" interface and is pre-installed on their Mac. Slick interface? Bah!

]]> by: ajb http://followingedge.com/blog/2005/09/work-frustration-resolved-or-relocated/#comment-953 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:03:11 +0000 http://followingedge.com/blog/2005/09/work-frustration-resolved-or-relocated/#comment-953 The obvious solution being, of course, just letting people use their chat client of choice. No borked Apple "solutions" needed. =) -ajb The obvious solution being, of course, just letting people use their chat client of choice.
No borked Apple "solutions" needed.
=)
-ajb

]]> by: Dave'ola http://followingedge.com/blog/2005/09/work-frustration-resolved-or-relocated/#comment-951 Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:46:42 +0000 http://followingedge.com/blog/2005/09/work-frustration-resolved-or-relocated/#comment-951 Hopefully one of the <a href="http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0509briefly22.html" rel="nofollow">500 bugs</a> to be fixed in Mac OS X 10.4.3 will include this. Always worth wishing! Hopefully one of the 500 bugs to be fixed in Mac OS X 10.4.3 will include this. Always worth wishing!

]]> by: Burl http://followingedge.com/blog/2005/09/work-frustration-resolved-or-relocated/#comment-950 Sat, 24 Sep 2005 06:27:32 +0000 http://followingedge.com/blog/2005/09/work-frustration-resolved-or-relocated/#comment-950 Good to hear! Hope you have a great weekend. Good to hear! Hope you have a great weekend.

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