LDAP newbie help

I am trying to setup LDAP on RH8 to act as an address book for Outlook users. I have read several examples and don't understand what I am missing.

My slapd.conf file:
database ldbm
suffix "dc=mycompany,dc=com"
rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=mycompany,dc=com"
rootpw mypassword
directory /var/lib/ldap
index objectClass,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber,memberUid eq
index cn,mail,surname,givenname eq,subinitial

From Outlook I get invalid DN syntax error 34

From server cmd line doing:
ldapadd -x -D "cn=root" -w mypassword -h localhost
Output: ldap_bind: Invalid credentials

root dn needs to be
cn=Manager,dc=mycompany,dc=com not cn=root

I can change cn=<anything> and it still gets the same error.

can you log on with an annomous bind?

One problem resolved. Outlook needs to be restarted after making any changes. I can now connect to the LDAP server and see an entry I added from the cmd line.

But I cannot connect to add entries. Whenever I use a login and password I get "Invalid DN syntax".

What user do I enter into a ldap utility to connect as? root? Manager? I don't get it.

Current config:
database ldbm
suffix "dc=mycompany,dc=com"
rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=mycompany,dc=com"
rootpw mypassword

your root dn is
rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=mycompany,dc=com" so you have to connect with

cn=Manager,dc=mycompany,dc=com

to connect as root

No wonder I didn't get it!!! I kept thinking the login name is a single word "Manager" or "root". I had no idea you enter the whole thing into the user name.

I can now login with a user name but Outlook cannot add or modify entries as "Manager". I get no error.

did you enter your password in Outlook?

Yes the login and password are in Outlook. If I intentionally enter a wrong password Outlook won't let me connect (error 48). I connect as the rootdn but it won't let me modify or add entries.

perhaps outlook doesn't support it