[Evolution] Evolution and Exchange

[Don Doumakes]

"Saul Farber" <sjf8 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm having some trouble connecting to exchange via the
> evolution-connector.  Here are the symptoms...any ideas?
> 
> 
> Software versions:
> Fedora Core 4, with "testing" updates
> 
> [sfarber at localhost ~]$ rpm -q -a |grep evolution
> evolution-data-server-devel-1.2.3-1.fc4
> evolution-webcal-2.2.1-1.fc4
> evolution-connector-2.2.3-1.fc4
> evolution-data-server-1.2.3-1.fc4
> evolution-devel-2.2.3-1.fc4
> evolution-2.2.3-1.fc4
> 
> 
> 
> I then run ximian-connector-setup-2.2 to try to create my exchange
> account.  It lets me enter the OWA url (which I can verify with 'wget
> --http-user --http-passwd' works just fine and isn't a redirect).  My OWA
> url is of the form:
> 
> https://<server>/exchange/<email-address-prefix>
> 
> I enter this URL, and then enter my login as:
> 
> DOMAIN\username (note that my username is different than my
> email-address-prefix)
> 
> I get the error message "Could not authenticate to the Exchange server.
> Make sure the username and password are correct and try again."

What worked for me was to login to OWA first, using IE.  After one
successful login from the browser, login from Evolution worked.

Don