Hi foks - any experience of configuring group calendars would be greatly
appreciated. A long first post, but hopefully it makes sense.
I am a new CalDAV user on Ubuntu 7.10 linux. I have successfully set up the
server, and can create users by editing accounts.xml. We are using iCAL on
a MAC as the client, and have to set the preferences area to see the
calendars on the server - e.g., caldav://xxx.xxx.xxx.x:8008. This all works
fine, but I do not know how to subscribe to them - or indeed if this is
possible.
So, I guess what I need to do next is to set up some kind of group for all
of the users to either subscribe to, or add as a preference/account in the
iCAL client. The instructions I have found on forums on the web do not
explain clearly how this should be configured - but I have had a go - with
no luck!
Ok, detail - here's what I have in my accounts.xml - well the relevant bits
(it's based on the shipped version with nothing deleted).
<accounts realm="Test Realm">
<user>
<uid>admin</uid>
<guid>admin</guid>
<password>admin</password>
<name>Super User</name>
</user>
<user>
<uid>kevin</uid>
<guid>kevin</guid>
<password>password</password>
<name>Skivvy</name>
</user>
<user>
<uid>raymond</uid>
<guid>raymond</guid>
<password>password</password>
<name>Boss</name>
</user>
.... lot of other stuff (in default) that I have not put in....
<resource>
<uid>resourcestaff</uid>
<guid>resourcestaff</guid>
<password>password</password>
<name>Resource Staff</name>
<auto-schedule/>
<proxies>
<member type="groups">allstaff</member>
</proxies>
</resource>
<group>
<uid>allstaff</uid>
<guid>allstaff</guid>
<password>password</password>
<name>All Staff</name>
<members>
<uid>kevin</uid>
<uid>raymond</uid>
</members>
</group>
The net result is that as mentioned earlier, I can set a preference/account
for a user to my iCAL client, as can the others. The issue is that each
user must know the other users' calendar server passwords in order to
configure the preference/account in iCAL - and then they have full r/w/d
access. Ideally, they should just have read access and the capablity to
invite - lke a .MAC account. So, teh config above arose from the thought
that a solution would be to set up a group, then I would only have to
provide that group-id and password in order to set a preference/account in
iCAL, which would show all calendars in the group - with goodness knows what
access... but that's for later!!! With the above configuration, if I try to
add an account, I get an error on the client like:
Calendar caldav://xxx.xxx.xxx.x:8008/principals/users/allstaff/ could not be
found.
This is fair as I have not defined a user account in the accounts.xml - just
a group. So, after looking at some other posts in this area, I was prompted
to set up a resource and group in accounts.xml as above, and supposedly
should be able to add a delegation in iCAL... but can't as I cannot see the
resources listed. So I try to set up a delegation for a user by adding
caldav://xxx.xxx.xxx.x:8008/principals/resources/resourcestaff/, and that
fails:
Cannot enable access to your account.
"caldav://xxx.xxx.xxx.x:8008/principals/resources/resourcestaff/" was not
found. The same goes when configuring a group
I can access this resource via the browser
(http://xxx.xxx.xxx.x:8008/principals/resources/resourcestaff/) and see a
directory listing and all sorts of other stuff - e.g:
Directory Information
---------------------
Directory GUID: 86587b41-d080-5df3-8135-41b482cf220e
Realm: Test Realm
Principal Information
---------------------
GUID: resourcestaff
Record type: resources
Short name: resourcestaff
Full name: Resource Staff
Principal UID: resourcestaff
Principal URL: /principals/__uids__/resourcestaff/
Alternate URIs:
-> /principals/resources/resourcestaff/
Group members:
'()
Group memberships:
'()
Calendar homes:
-> /calendars/resources/resourcestaff
Calendar user addresses:
-> /principals/__uids__/resourcestaff/
-> urn:uuid:resourcestaff
..........
Looking at the group
(http://xxx.xxx.xxx.x:8008/principals/group/allstaff/):
Directory Information
---------------------
Directory GUID: 86587b41-d080-5df3-8135-41b482cf220e
Realm: Test Realm
Principal Information
---------------------
GUID: allstaff
Record type: groups
Short name: allstaff
Full name: All Staff
Principal UID: allstaff
Principal URL: /principals/__uids__/allstaff/
Alternate URIs:
-> /principals/groups/allstaff/
Group members:
'()
Group memberships:
-> (resources) resourcestaff [calendar-proxy-write]
Calendar homes:
-> /calendars/groups/allstaff
Calendar user addresses:
.......
and one of the users http://xxx.xxx.xxx.x:8008/principals/users/raymond/ :
Directory Information
---------------------
Directory GUID: 86587b41-d080-5df3-8135-41b482cf220e
Realm: Test Realm
Principal Information
---------------------
GUID: raymond
Record type: users
Short name: raymond
Full name: Super User
Principal UID: raymond
Principal URL: /principals/__uids__/raymond/
Alternate URIs:
-> /principals/users/raymond/
Group members:
'()
Group memberships:
'()
Calendar homes:
-> /calendars/users/raymond
Calendar user addresses:
........
So, I am a little confused on how to configure this - the groups definition
does not seem to hang together by what is listed from looking at the
principals areas via the browser.
So, just to refresh the objective here, ideally I would like the users to
subscribe to calendar server calendars - a bit like like .MAC by providing a
url to the calendar server. If that is not possible, I would like to define
a group that will provide a single uid and password, which when added as a
preference/account to an iCAL client, will provide access to a whole bunch
of calendars from the calendar server.
So, if anyone has done this before, some advice on the config sections in
accounts.xml and any other areas I may need to address would be greatly
appreciated.
Cheers!
Kevin.
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