PH Server Discontinued

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) has disabled their PH server as part of their centralized directory server transition. OIT no longer supports a PH server or a WHOIS server. The funcitonality of the centralized electronic directory has been moved to a system utilizing the LDAP protocol. OIT maintains a Web interface to the new server here. A Web interface to OSU's LDAP server has also been developed for the local system, and it is accessible here.

You can also configure various Internet clients (i.e. Netscape Communicator, Outlook Express, or Eudora for Windows) to utilize a LDAP server. See this page for details. If you want to configure Eudora for Macintosh to connect to OIT's LDAP server, then read on.

Configuring LDAP in Eudora for Macintosh

  1. If Eudora is running, quit it.

  2. Locate the folder where your Eudora application is located.

  3. If there's a file named "Esoteric Settings" (probably with version information at the end of the file name, e.g. "Esoteric Settings v5") located in the Eudora Stuff folder, skip to step 5.

  4. Find the Esoteric Settings file in the "Extra Plugins" folder and move it to the "Eudora Stuff" folder.

  5. Start Eudora. Access the Settings dialog from the Special menu and locate the LDAP section of the dialog.

  6. Complete the fields in this dialog as follows:

    Directory Services Host
    ldap://directory.service.ohio-state.edu/ou=People,dc=osu,dc=edu

    Word-wise search filter template
    (uid=^0)

    Full query search filter template
    (cn=^0)

  7. You may now access OIT's LDAP server from the Directory Services window of Eudora.