[CalendarServer-users] Available Features using XMLDirectoryService?

[Guy]

yup just make em up... 

uuidgen does quite a good job of that...


---Guy

On 20 Nov 2009, at 14:01, Conrad Wasmer wrote:

> 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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>>> 
>> 
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