Newbie: Setting up LDAP as a directory service

[Neil Davis <neil@iid.co.za>]

Hi All,

I am looking for a straight forward HOWTO, for setting up an LDAP server 
which will allow users using Outlook etc to lookup email addresses.

I found a script which generated an LDIF file from the /etc/passwd file, 
this file was then updated into the DB. Yet the system won't respond to any 
queries.

Is there any straight forward way of doing this?

Thanks

Neil