Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a directory listing of people, individual's certificates and resources. LDAP allows you to search for individuals by name, e-mail, phone number, organization, organizational unit, city or street. The most common search is to locate names of individuals and their e-mail addresses. The instructions below will assist you in setting up your LDAP directory for the GSA ACES Program.

LDAP:c=us

Open Netscape Communicator 4.X and select "Edit" - "Preferences" - "Mail and Groups" - "Directory" - "New".

A window as shown below will appear. Type in the following information:

To Search for A Name in The LDAP Directory

Open Netscape Communicator 4.X and select "Edit" - "Search Directory". The window below will appear.

In the "Search for items" box enter or scroll to Navy Acquisition PKI. Select where to search by Name, E-mail, Phone Number, Organization, Organizational Unit, City or Street. Enter the information, such as the name of a person, in the right hand window or type * to list all information in the directory. Click "Search". After you obtain the person's information you will be able to add the person to your local address book by clicking "Add to Address Book" at the bottom of the "Search" window. You may also send a message to a person by clicking on "Compose Message". An e-mail box will automatically open and you may write and send your e-mail to the person.

Further Details

LDAP is the proposed open standard protocol for directory services over TCP network protocol. LDAP can be used to access standalone LDAP directory services or those supporting the X.500 Standard. This provides a standard way for Internet clients, applications, and Web servers to access directory listings of thousands of Internet users