[CalendarServer-users] Again: Howto Contact Server

Stefan Bollmann stefan.bollmann at rwth-aachen.de
Fri Feb 1 11:45:52 PST 2013


Hi,

maybe I missed something.. Nobody out there who can help? At the end, I'd love to write a howto.

Stefan

Am 29.01.2013 um 21:45 schrieb Stefan Bollmann:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm very happy to somehow use CalendarServer-4.2 for CalDAV. Therefore I followed mostly the instructions of http://www.ronregev.com/misc/pim_server_tutorial/ - even if they are old. Following the steps depicted there I'm able to synchronize my calendars. 
> 
> But how can I configure address books with CalendarServer? I did not find nothing for this topic. 
> 
> For the sake of completeness I add here, what I did for the calendars:
> 
> On my server I made
> 
> svn co https://svn.calendarserver.org/repository/calendarserver/CalendarServer/tags/release/CalendarServer-4.2/
> cd CalendarServer-4.2
> ./run -s
> Copied CalendarServer-4.2/conf/caldavd-test.plist to CalendarServer-4.2/conf/caldavd-dev.plist
> and changed in caldavd-dev.plist internal IP addresses and BindAddresses as written in http://www.ronregev.com/misc/pim_server_tutorial/.
> Then I changed CalendarServer-4.2/conf/auth/accounts-test.xml that it now reads 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <!--
> ...License stuff...
> -->
> <!DOCTYPE accounts SYSTEM "accounts.dtd">
> 
> <accounts realm="Test Realm">
> <user>
>   <uid>admin</uid>
>   <guid>admin</guid>
>   <password>PASSWORD</password>
>   <name>Administrator</name>
> </user>
> <user>
>   <uid>MYUID</uid>
>   <guid>MYUID</guid>
>   <password>PASSWORD</password>
>   <name>Stefan Bollmann</name>
>   <first-name>Stefan</first-name>
>   <last-name>Bollmann</last-name>
> </user>
> <group>
>   <uid>group01</uid>
>   <guid>group01</guid>
>   <password>group01</password>
>   <name>Group 01</name>
>   <members>
>     <member type="users">user01</member>
>   </members>
> </group>
> </accounts>
> 
> admin password was changed.
> now
> cd ~/calendar/CalendarServer
> ./run
> 
> Then I opened iCal-> Preferences->Accounts tab->+
> and configured an account with user name, password and server address with ssl like in accounts-test.xml.
> Now everything works fine with this calendar, I can change it on clients and everythings fine. I did not do the guid things described in http://www.ronregev.com/misc/pim_server_tutorial/. But here the applicability of the Howto ends...
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Stefan

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