[CalendarServer-users] Available Features using XMLDirectoryService?

Conrad Wasmer conrad.wasmer at comcast.net
Thu Nov 19 04:56:14 PST 2009


Guy-

I had tried this a while ago, but failed and gave up. But it's been  
nagging me ever since.  HOW do you delegate out the company-wide  
calendar?

Thanks

Conrad

On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Guy wrote:

>
> On 19 Nov 2009, at 11:41, Dirk wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am new to this list and interested in running the Darwin Calendar  
>> Server for a small company.
>>
>> We'd need a setup like this:
>>
>> 4 user accounts:
>>
>> 1 boss
>> 1 secretary
>> 2 employees
>>
>> Have 1 personal calendar for each of the 4 users.
>> 1 company wide shared group calendar where all of the 4 persons  
>> have read/write access.
>> The secretary has read/write access to boss’ personal calendar.
>>
>> Calendar Clients are Apple iCal from 10.5. and 10.6 as well as the  
>> iPhone client.
>>
>> My questions are (after installing DCS and playing with  
>> accounts.xml):
>>
>> How do I configure above scenario? Is it possible at all?
>>
>
> yup very simple... the company wide calendar you have a few choices  
> on how to set it up.
>
> 1. just create a user account and delegate it out.
> 2. create it as a resource and delegate it out.
>
> You can either setup the delegation inside the accounts.xml file or  
> using ical.  I have to say ical 10.6 (snow leopard) works much  
> better at handling delegates etc.
>
> On the iphone you'll have to create multiple accounts (using same  
> credentials), one for each delegate you want to see, you then change  
> the URL to point to the delegate.
>
>> Do I need a specific release (build) version of the DCS to  
>> accomplish this?
>>
>
> nope I think any current (ish) release will work fine.
>
>> Is the accounts.xml rewritten by the server when a user assigns a  
>> new delegate in iCal?
>>
>
> nope never written to again. Only read, and seems to only be read on  
> start up, so any changes you make to it will require a restart to  
> update :(
>
>
> --Guy
>
>> Why is accounts.xml as it is? I'd expect a calendar server to have  
>> calendars as first class objects. Instead, there are users which  
>> seem to have one (one one?) implicit calendar.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>  Dirk
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