Q:

Simpleurl type external data sources do not support authentication

Wanted to try out External Data objects and created a data source with the free and publicly available OData Test Service from services.odata.org
When I "Validate and Synch" I get the following confused error message: 
"Simpleurl type external data sources do not support authentication"
Which does not make sense since I have:

Type: Simple URL
URL: http://services.odata.org/V3/(S(ioxcmsdqq4jmw5hug3ybtxbu))/OData/OData.svc/
Identity Type=Anonymous
Authentication Protocol=No Authentication

Any ideas?

A:

You need to use the Lightning Connect OData v2 external data source type to connect to an OData data source.  Simple URL is used with Chatter Files which doesn't use validate and sync.

