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Setting Up SIU-C Directory Services in Netscape Communicator 4.0x for Macintosh.

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SIU-C Directory Services is a new service offered to the campus community by Information Technology. The SIU-C Directory Services allows you to search a common database of all faculty, staff, and students, preferred e-mail addresses. The various departments around campus have listed the preferred e-mail contact address for their faculty and staff, these addresses, along with other pertinent information, have been entered into a directory allowing you to search for the e-mail address directly from your e-mail client without using the e-mail search function on the campus web site.

Minimum System Requirements for SIU-C Directory Services

• Campus Area Network Access whether through modem or direct access.
• The minimum requirements to run Netscape Communicator 4.x.
• Netscape Communicator Mail configured correctly for your e-mail account.

 1) The first step is to launch Netscape Communicator 4.x.

2) Next go to the Edit menu and choose Preferences.

3) Choose the Directory Category so that you see the preference window that follows.

4) Hit the New button on the right side of the Directory Preferences window so that you get the LDAP Server Properties window as appears below.

5) Enter the information as appears in the image below. For the Description, you can give the SIU-C Directory Services any name you wish. Under Search Root enter o=SIU,c=US (lowercase letter o equals SIU (in all capital letters) comma lowercase letter c equals US (in all capital letters)) with no spaces. Change the Port Number to 489 and leave the Maximum Number of Hits; at 100.

6) Click OK.

7) Click OK.

8) Open your Address Book by going to the Communicator menu and choosing Address Book.

9) You should now see your address book. You might not have any entries in your address book at this time, the following example has several entries.

10) Click on the toggle arrow next to Personal Address Book and switch to SIU Directory Services (or whatever name you gave your new Directory service in step 5 above) as seen in the image below.

11) The next step is to type in the name of the person whom you wish to search for in the SIU Directory Service. Click Search when you have entered the name (the search may take several minutes, be patient).

12) In the image below we see the results of the search on "bruens" in the SIU Directory Services.

13) To send an e-mail message to the person, highlight the name by clicking on it once and then clicking New Msg as seen in the image below.

14) Now you will have a New Message window open with the address filled in for the person that you selected in the previous step. Type your message and press send when finished.

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