Hey.

I have about ten different pc's. I wish to share one address book across these pc's with LDAP or similar service.

I want suggestions for server software i can use to set up a LDAP or similar service over the internet, not local network. I want it to have a address book functionality and calender, but the calender is not a requirement. Everything else that concerns LDAP is not of interest.

Anyone have a good suggestion or idea for this?

The problem with your post is that there are two different aspects to your problem, the server side - which is quite easily solved using OpenLDAP or any of the other LDAP servers out there - and the client side, which you have failed to specify at all.

What you appear to want is the shared address book / calendering functionality of a product such as Exchange or Lotus Notes, but without you specifying what the client would be nobody can tell you what would be the best.

If I were to write one from scratch, then I would use OpenLDAP, and choose my LDAP schema for address book and calendering (may have to make one up for calendering - I don't know if there's a standard one) and I would then develop my own standalone client written in Java to access the LDAP server to display the information retrieved.

Additionally I'd probably write a web front end so that people who didn't want to install a fat client would also be able to access it.

However, if you're talking about integration into existing client software, then nobody has a chance of answering your question until you tell us what the client software we're supposed to be integrating with is.

Sorry, i was making the assumption that address book sharing is the same no matter what the client were.

Well the client on most of these machines is Thunderbird, i will also be using the MS. Office suit at some time. So if the server has support for what ever MS. Outlook needs that is also a big plus. But in essence i only need what Thunderbird need for this to work.

Thank you for clearing that up for me by the way.