LDAP client configuration question

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@cornell.edu>]

I am relatively newbie in LDAP area, so please excuse me if the question 
is not interesting.

We have an LDAP server up and running redhat 8. I know that the ldap 
server is functioning properly because I can access it from other redhat 
machines. But I am not able to access it from a client runnind Debian 
testing.

The configuration file I am using is as follows (I obtained this 
configuration file from the redhat machines). I would like to know what 
I have to do/read to set up this LDAP client. I have read the  
LDAP-HOWTO.html. From what I understood, it discusses only server setup 
but no discussion about client set up... I also browsed google but could 
not get anything useful (or may be wrong keywords)..

host k2.mae.cornell.edu

base o=cttg,c=US

ssl no

pam_password md5


regards
raju