Hi,

I have this set up at home, I have used some different how-to's but all of them are written in French. I would be happy to write an article, but can't find the time and the patience, as some steps are still quite obscure for me.

What have you done until now?

Cheers,
Julien

ldap is quite a challenge to setup. It works really well, mind you, and once it's running you have nearly no troubles with it, but it has to run first :)

If you really want to understand LDAP then you should get yourself a copy of Gerry Carter's 'LDAP system administration' (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ldapsa/). Although it is a bit outdated, the knowledge you will win is priceless for a thourough understanding of what ldap is and does.

Obviously, http://www.openldap.org. They have quite a good quick starting guide, the mailing list is really good (provided you have done your homework first) and I know soon Howard Chu (main architect of openldap) will publish a book about it.

Good luck and happy googling for it :)

I've had a look at this on the weekend and now have basic, editable, address book functionality.

I still need to look into how to get the schemas to include support for Instant Messenger contacts, then I'll write something up here.