Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 175242
Openoffice.org won't connect to ldap; "a driver is not registered for the url"
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:18 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: after setting up an ldap addressbook, when trying to test the connection or commit changes, openoffice presents you with a dialog box that states "error while connecting to the data source; a driver is not registered for the url; 'sdbc:address:ldap:ldap.anyhost.com:389". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-core-2.0.1-143.2.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use the addressbook wizard to add an ldap address book 2. try to test the new connection 3. wait for the dialog box Actual Results: the dialog box appears stating that there is no driver registered for that url. Expected Results: the ldap connection should be made. Additional info: i marked this "high" because the ldap addresssbook is completely useless without a connection to the ldap server.
Created attachment 122011 [details] Initial Error Dialog Screenshot
Created attachment 122012 [details] More information from the error dialog
Hmm, the default backend is the mozilla addressbook badkend, and the problem is fundamentally https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135137#c15 We don't include the driver for that reason. I think we should include the driver anyway, should be ok for ldap usage.
so until you include the driver (waiting patiently), what are my options to get ldap addressbooks to work in openoffice? are their some dependancies that i might need to resolve that would restore the functionality to openoffice?
Try recently released 2.0.1.1-4.1, the best solution (not that it's brilliant) is to setup evolution to use the ldap database, and then use the newly enabled "evolution ldap" address source and see if that works
unfortunately, while i used to be a regular evolution user, i found that it became more unreliable with the past year's releases and i mostly only used it for email anyway. so i am not using it anymore. aside from the fact that it seems like openoffice really shouldn't need to use another program to hack through to an ldap directory. are there any plans for implementing a real ldap connection straight from openoffice to an ldap server? -- i do appreciate your help and suggestions, but so you know. my plan is to get rid of microsoft office completely. the only 2 things i need are true full ldap addressbook functionality and better envelope printing.
The only available workable option for 2.0.1/2 for ldap addressbooks is the evo ldap bridge :-(. That's the best we can offer right now.