ldap newbie again

[Payal Rathod <payal-ldap@scriptkitchen.com>]

Hi,
After my last unsuccessful try and many months of sulking I am trying
LDAP again on a stand alone machine with Mandrakelinux release 10.1 
(Official)  on AMD 2600+ XP machine.
I am very very new to Ldap and after my last trust with it am lacking in 
confidence on ldap. Can someone suggest how do I start with it? I have 
no specific requirement but a shared address book would be a nice idea.  
How do I start with it?  I have installed,
# rpm -qa | grep ldap
openldap-2.1.30-3mdk
libldap2-2.1.30-3mdk
openldap-clients-2.1.30-3mdk
nss_ldap-220-3mdk
pam_ldap-170-3mdk
perl-ldap-0.31-2mdk

There is no ldap binary I can find or a slapd.conf file.
Please tolerate these questions and suggest where do I start?

With warm regards,
-Payal