November 2012 - calendarserver-users

Users and Groups from AD
by Dennison Williams 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

I am currently trying to configure calendarserver to pull users and groups from Microsoft Active Directory and I am having a hard time figuring out the schema that is required for the mapping to the calendar server filed names. The documentation (http://trac.calendarserver.org/wiki/ConfiguringLDAP) does not clarify it for me either. Are the definitions one for one in the RFC (I have not read through that yet)? For example: <key>users</key> <dict> <key>rdn</key> <string></string>  <key>attr</key>  <string>uid</string> <key>emailSuffix</key>  <string></string> <key>filter</key> <string></string>  </dict> Thanks for any help! Dennison Williams

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New install questions
by John Morris 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Howdy all, Just finished a test install and am evaluating this as a replacement for the ancient and unmaintained ical (X Window) for a small workplace environment. As usual I began the safe way with a Debian Stable VM and the version in the stable repo. Our network is still using NIS so that was what I wired calendarserver up to. The idea is to connect with Thunderbird+Lightning and Evolution as clients. Didn't take all that much effort to begin to see results but things are getting bogged down in the details. Any user on our network can now have a personal calendar. Read the webpages and such, Googled and there are things that still aren't making sense. 1. Group calendars. See mailing list traffic that implies they have been eliminated but only unanswered questions regarding what should be used as a replacement. At any rate, they don't work for me. I made a group with the right prefix and it appears as a group with the right members when I browse the server with a web browser but any attempt to create a calendar for the group fails. The closest I can see now to a solution is to create a user with a similar name to the group and set the group as a proxy using the command line tool. Is that the right thing to do? 2. The missing svn repo and the brain teaser in the command line admin tool. To get the command line tool, CalDAVClientLibrary, one is supposed to issue a request for an svn checkout. That doesn't work. Google provided an alternate git repo that I could get to work. But I have now tried running that on both the new Debian server hosting calendarserver and my laptop running Fedora 17 and get the same bizarre issue. I can't type a b. [ac-zA-Z0-9] all work just fine, but no b. I'm composing this on the same laptop so I know my b key works. 3. Once I got NSS as a directory service working the XML file appears to have stopped providing anything. I see where you can go either way if you use LDAP, either retaining locations and resources coming from the XML file or taking them from the LDAP server. Do not see any such option with NSS. Are locations and resources just unavailable in my situation or is there a way to push them in via NSS/NIS? Once I get past those I can move on to coming up with an easy way to get the permissions on everything right and in such a way that other people can do it when people come and go and then declare victory and move on.

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Features of web admin interface
by Dennison Williams 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hello all, first post to this list. I saw in the config file reference to a web management interface, but when I point my browser to 8008 I get what seems to be a feature less listing of directories and XML dump. Is there another web interface that allows more management functionality? What are the features supported by the web admin interface? Sincerely, Dennison Williams

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server error "access is not permitted"
by Mark Jaekel 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

hello, we are running calendar server on Mac OS X Server 10.7.4 (Build 11E53) clients: Mac OS X 10.6.8, 10.7.5, 10.8.2, and iOS5, iOS6 sometimes, if someone receive a "external" invitation per mail attachment (*.ics file) and try to add this event in iCal, the server responds with an error message: The server responded with an error. Access to "event-name" in "calendar-name" in account "account-name" is not permitted. The server responded: "403" to operation CalDAVWriteEntityQueueableOperation. i can reproduce this behavior when I create a event in a "local" calendar in iCal and invite an attendee per mail/ics-file and the receiver try to add this event in iCal on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (in this case this error didn't appear on 10.7 or 10.8) following entry appears in caldavd error.log: 2012-11-14 12:29:44+0100 [-] [caldav-7] [PooledMemCacheProtocol,client] [twistedcaldav.method.put_common#error] Attendee cannot create event for Organizer: 2 can someone explain why this happen or how we can avoid this error when getting invitations from external or per mail/*.ics-file ?

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ICal Server: Which Calendarserver version
by emport 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Hi, i'm locally running an ubuntu os with the calendar server version 2.4.dfsg-6 but i want to use the same calendar server (version) as the Mac OS X/10.6.8 server uses. it would be amazing if someone could help me to answer the following question: Which *calendar server version* does the *Mac OS X/10.6.8 (10K540) Server * run? (https://svn.calendarserver.org/repository/calendarserver/CalendarServer/tag…) The logs of the iCal server gave me the following information: DAVKit/4.0.3 (732.2); CalendarStore/4.0.4 (997.7); iCal/4.0.4 (1395.7); Mac OS X/10.6.8 (10K540) but i could not find any helpful information anywhere in the www. or did i miss something so that my question is untenable? thanks in advance, emport -- View this message in context: http://mac-os-forge.2317878.n4.nabble.com/ICal-Server-Which-Calendarserver-… Sent from the Calendar Server - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [CalendarServer-users] Working around delegates with iOS
by JJ 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

On 19 nov. 2012, at 21:00, calendarserver-users-request(a)lists.macosforge.org wrote: > It would appear that iOS does not support subscription to delegate calendars, or at least I have not found a way to do this via the iOS Calendar program. > I would like to work around this, and here is my initial thought: > > 1) Set up a daemon on the machine hosting the calendar server to periodically scan and export the calendar of interest to an ICS file. A long time ago I put together a solution to this: http://www.demon.cx/icaldavmerge/ It may help get you started; however this was done for the iCal server which was part of Mac OS X Leopard Server. The current Calender Server stores things differently, so those scripts need updating. Does anyone know how to retreive a monolithic ics file from the Calender Server through http? grtz, jj

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Working around delegates with iOS
by calendarserver.sgd2＠spamgourmet.com 18 Nov '12

18 Nov '12

Hi all, It would appear that iOS does not support subscription to delegate calendars, or at least I have not found a way to do this via the iOS Calendar program. I would like to work around this, and here is my initial thought: 1) Set up a daemon on the machine hosting the calendar server to periodically scan and export the calendar of interest to an ICS file. 2) Access the resulting ICS file via the normal read-only subscription mechanism supported by iOS. Does this seem like a good way of working around the problem, or ought I try something else instead? In case it is a good way, could someone advise how might I accomplish 1) above? Thanks, -- Derek

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How to disable postgres, use plain XML file store? 4.1.1
by calendarserver.sgd2＠spamgourmet.com 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

I've installed 4.1.1 to a shared host, and on startup it is picking up the system postgres. I want to use plain XML file stores. Is this configurable? Thanks, -- Derek

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