[CalendarServer-users] Available Features using XMLDirectoryService?

[Conrad Wasmer]

Thanks, Guy!

I thought the guid was supposed to be the same as the uid? I may have  
been misinformed.  How did you get the guid's - did you just make them  
up?

- conrad

On Nov 19, 2009, at 7:22 AM, Guy wrote:

> well the way I do it (For my family calendar)... is this...
>
> 1. create a user to hold the calendar and don't share the passwd..
>
>  <user>
>    <uid>shared-calendar-user</uid>
>    <guid>98714-12349817234-12341234-12341234</guid>
>    <password>secured</password>
>    <name>Family Calendars</name>
>    <first-name>Family</first-name>
>    <last-name></last-name>
>    <cuaddr>mailto:family at local.local</cuaddr>
>    <proxies>
> 	   <member type="groups">alluser</member>
> 	</proxies>
>  </user>
>
>
> 2. create the group "alluser"
>
>  <group>
>    <uid> alluser </uid>
>    <guid>38475234-23452345-23452345-13554</guid>
>    <password>doesn't matter</password>
>    <name>All people</name>
>    <members>
>      <member type="users">user1</member>
>      <member type="users">user2</member>
>    </members>
>  </group>
>  <group>
>
>
> Job done..
>
> --Guy
>
> On 19 Nov 2009, at 12:56, Conrad Wasmer wrote:
>
>> 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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>> --
>> Conrad Wasmer
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>>
>


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