Thanks for all the quick replies!
On Apr 7, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
--On April 7, 2008 9:20:48 AM -0500 Chris Cleeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I'm finally getting back to something that's been on my to-do list
for
awhile--setting up the cal server for my family to use. I know that
there are at least a few others out there who do something similar,
so
I'm looking for feedback on how you've set it up.
I think I can fairly lay claim to the fact that my family is the
first to use CalDAV on the basis that we have been using it since
2005 in one guise or another. I do actually run OS X server at home
with CalDAV enabled. Having shared calendars etc is the big benefit
for us.
It seems appropriate that you would have this deployed at home! It
also reassures me that it will be able to support the needs of a
family (as well as an enterprise).
I have separate accounts for each family member just because that's
how the server as a whole is setup for email, ichat etc. My wife and
I are read-write proxies for the kids (they are too young to use
computers) and we are each read-only proxies of each other. I also
set up a family group calendar (that is tied to the wikiserver
feature on OS X server too) and that has a calendar for public
holidays (one for US, one for UK).
I don't have OS X server, and hence can't run an OpenDirectory (though
I would dearly like to). If you could only use the XML directory,
would you still have a setup like this (per-user calendars)?
Also, in regard to your group calendar, who owns that? The group (of
which you are all members)?
Also, I should point out that I actually want my wife and myself to
have write access on at least some of our calendars. We often end up
scheduling things for the other and need to capture that somehow.
If you have or are going to have separate accounts for other things
like email, im etc, then I think it makes sense to stick with that
for calendars too - particularly if you can share the same
authentication db etc.
Definitely separate accounts for email and the like, although right
now we do not have a unified open directory type of thing. In fact,
all the machines are relatively standalone and I only physically keep
them semi-sync'd in terms of having accounts. Most of the machines
are laptops, and in my past experiences, laptops don't fare well when
they're tethered to "enterprise" authentication systems. Perhaps
leopard (or OS X) is better about that--all my past experience was
with Windows and its ilk, YP/NIS/NIS+, and NetInfo, all which became
particularly unhappy when they couldn't find their respective masters,
and often required administrative trickery to get them to behave away
from the enterprise.
---
Chris Cleeland
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