Setup an LDAP email address book

[gary]

Hello. I am at a loss here and am hoping that someone will be able to help (with easily understandable directions). I work at a school where we have 3 distinct groups:

1. Students (registered in Open Directory, without email addresses)
2. Teachers (registered in Open Directory, with email addresses)
3. Parents (NOT registered in Open Directory, with email addresses)

This is what I want to be able to do…

1. Setup an email address book of Teachers with various groups (Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, etc) that can be accessed by all of our teachers.
2. Setup an email address book of Parents with grade level groups (Kindergarten Parents, Grade 1 Parents, etc) that can be accessed by ONLY some teachers.
3. Parents or people outside the school will not have access to the address books.

Can this be done with LDAP, and if it can, can it be done with the LDAP built into OS X Server 10.4? If so, does anyone know how to set it up?

We have 5 OS X 10.4 servers, and I already have one of our servers set up as an Open Directory Master that holds names and passwords of all Teachers and Students. I can one of the other servers if I need to use a different server to make things less complicated. These are the services each server is running (if it helps to know):

Admin Server
-OD Master
-DNS (Primary)
-AFP

Ed Server
-OD Replica (of Admin Server)
-AFP
-FTP

Tech Server
-Connected to a Directory System (Admin Server)
-DNS (Secondary)
-Web
-AFP

Library Server
-Connected to a Directory System (Admin Server)
-AFP

DHCP Server
-Connected to a Directory System (Admin Server)
-DHCP

Thanks for your help.
Gary

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