Hi, On 19 Mar 2008, at 11:11 PM, Gerald McNulty wrote: > I've been playing around with multi-user access under the > XMLDirectoryService and had the following questions:
We've been playing around with this for over 18 months and I apologise for any negative sentiment here, but I suggest that Apple have not been very helpful in this project. Cyrus, maybe you can tell us a little about how your time is spent on this? I've been following this list since Aug 2006 and last year I was disappointed that we had to wait for Leopard to make use of this software. Now that I've installed Leopard and spent many hours playing with the config files I have lost confidence in this project. There is no doubt that the world needs a good calendar server as MS Exchange seems to be the only viable option (and I cannot bring myself to using it for clients - we just do not like supporting the MS platform). Zimbra seems to be a potential alternative but too expensive. DAViCal looks interesting but really just experimental. Gerald asks superb questions, and definitely the same position we're in right now: > - Is it possible to allow users to access the calendar of other > users? Either read-only or read-write but without sharing > credentials. I can see how this can be done using <location> via > <proxies>, but can it be done directly as a user? Or do I need to > hack it using a resource or location? Is there a recommended way of > doing this? > > - What's the difference between a resource and a location? > > - What's the meaning of the <password> field for groups, locations > and resources? > > - Under <proxies>, what are valid <member type=... values and what's > their meaning? Is this where I can use groups? His questions reflect some other observations: - Lacking of documentations - If you search apples web site for calendarserver = no results - After more than 2 years, this is simply not scalable in it's current form - Doesn't seem to be working (as per the questions above). - The project makes use of outdated or bloated components I really hope that there is a way to salvage this. The idea in principle is superb. Sincerely, Alan -- Alan Levin Tel: +27 21 409-7997 _______________________________________________ calendarserver-users mailing list calendarserver-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/calendarserver-users
