Addressing Settings

In order to send scanned documents from the mfp to an email address, the user must provide such addresses. The mfp's addressing features simplifies this process by auto-completing and searching for destination addresses. The Addressing page allows you to enable and configure the mfp to access addresses directly from the database of an Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Server.

 

This feature is different from Accessing Addresses from a Replicated LDAP Address Book.  In that case, the LDAP Address Book is replicated to increase Address Book access performance.  However, since it may change periodically, the Address Book must be replicated on a regular basis.  If you set up the mfp to access the LDAP Address Book directly, no replication is needed and the mfp user is guaranteed to always have access to the latest addresses in the LDAP Address Book.

 

To allow the mfp to directly access addresses in an LDAP Address Book, check the Allow MFP to directly access an LDAP Address Book box  and provide the necessary LDAP information.  Check with your LDAP server's administrator to determine the proper settings.

Accessing the LDAP Server

LDAP Server Bind Method

Selects how the mfp  will connect to the LDAP Server. Check with your LDAP Server's administrator to determine which method will work best for you.

Credentials

Distinguished Name and Password

The credentials that will be used to bind to a specific path (or sub-tree) in the LDAP Server.  The Distinguished Name must be explicitly fully specified.  It is recommended that the bind path specified in the Distinguished Name match the Search Root field.  This will ensure that the relative bind distinguished name has sufficient privileges to search from the specified Search Root.

 

Domain

If NTLM  has been selected as the LDAP Server Bind Method, a Domain can be provided. This field is not available for other Bind methods.

 

Note:  If a connection to the LDAP server wasn't already explicitly established prior to the bind, the connection is implicitly established at bind time.

 

LDAP Server

The host name or IP address of the LDAP server whose database contains the centralized address book.

 

Note: Some mfp models only recognize IP addresses.  In such cases, host names will be converted to the equivalent  IP address.

 

Port

The TCP/IP port number on which the server is processing LDAP requests.  Typically, this is port 389.

 

Find Servers

Searches your network for available LDAP Servers.  Depending on the number of devices on your network, this process may take a few moments.

Searching the LDAP Database

Find Settings

Attempts to determine the best settings for the specified server to search the LDAP Database.

 

Search Root

The Distinguished Name (DN) of the entry in the LDAP directory structure where address searching is to begin.  A DN is made up of ' attribute=value ' pairs, separated by commas. For example:

ou=engineering,o=Hewlett Packard,c=US

ou=marketing,o=Hewlett Packard,c=US

o=hp.com

ou=engineering,cn=users,dc=hp,dc=com

Note: On some LDAP Servers, the Search Root can be left blank (in which case its root node will be assumed).

Mfp user information retrieval method

Depending on the type of LDAP server you are running, you might be able to use default settings for the email address look-up attributes.

Match the name entered...

with the LDAP attribute of...

The attribute in the LDAP database that identifies a person in the address book. The value of this attribute will be compared to the person entered by the mfp user in order to retrieve that person's email address.  The following are some, but not all, possible LDAP attributes:

uid - User Identifier

cn - Common Name

sn - Surname (Last Name)

givenName - First Name

Retrieve the mfp user's...

email address using attribute of ...

The LDAP attribute that contains the person's e-mail address. The following are some, but not all, possible LDAP attributes:

rfc822Mailbox

mail

Advanced...

Configures Advanced LDAP Server Settings.

Test

Tests the validity of your settings. This test can take a few moments to complete.

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