Hello List, please apologize for questions that might have been answered already. I read thru the list until August 2008 and did not find answers to my questions below.
Upfront some information on what I try to archive and what we have... More than three years ago we went away from Exchange into a more multi-OS solution. We have different sort of OS - namely OSX (10.5.x), Debian (Sidux), Windows (XP). Our internal Calendarserver is right now a DavICal (formerly RSCDS) setup running on a Debian server. As one of the Mac users I was always looking into the progress of Calendarserver. We were now asked by some small companies and non-profit organization to provide Email and Calenderservice. Thats when I realized that meanwhile Debian has the Calendarserver Package. So I give it a try and installed it. Playing a bit arround I found it working. Right now, I use the XML-based accounts structure because the nss-ldap based implementation had too many issues related to our naming structure. Creating the accounts.xml automagically from the ldap directory for our users is a pretty easy task (except the Password ;) ) - so I gave that solution the first try. Here now my questions: 1. Multidomain Calserver Based on the service we were asked for, we setup the Email service for an multi-domain scenario. Start to think how the Calendarserver might work with it, started the first questions. As far as I understand from the mailing list and some other internet sources, the caldavd.plist defines the location of the calendar files in the "DocumentRoot" Tag. Because I wanted to seperate the principals based on their domain to prevent security side effects I have had no idea at the first sight. So I thought about to setup different servers listening on different ports and use an apache reverse proxy to point to the propper service. Q: Is this a feasible plan or does anybody here has a better solution? 2. Permissions I have read that giving read-permissions on user/group based calendars is a task that the client software should provide. We use currently Lightning (still 0.9 because of Thunderbird 2) and I have no chance to provide any permissions using this client. Q: Is there any command-line based tool that I can use? - If so, I would create an admin/user Interface to provide the permissions dialogue. 3. Authentication As of now, I used the Digest Authentication (not sure if Lightning provides Kerberos Authentication). Every hour I got requested to provide a new Login via Lightning. As far as I have read thru the list, I knew that Lightning might not be the best solution because of still open bugs in the CalDav implementation. However the error I can see in the error log says that the "nonce value is invalid". Searching through google I have not found a solution yet. Q: Does anybody have a clue on these messages: 2009-04-28 13:44:11+0200 [-] [caldav-8008] [HTTPChannel,240,127.0.0.1] 'Authentication failed: Digest credentials expired' 2009-04-28 13:44:11+0200 [-] [caldav-8008] [HTTPChannel,241,127.0.0.1] PROPFIND /calendars/groups/Familie/calendar/ HTTP/1.1 2009-04-28 13:44:11+0200 [-] [caldav-8008] [HTTPChannel,241,127.0.0.1] 'Authentication failed: Invalid nonce value: 19270429311356917781566817204' 4. iCal Client Error Because I wanted to play with the item 2 (Permissions) I tried to use the iCal client on my mac. Unfortunately I got an error that blocks me from creating that Calendar in iCal. The Error Message "Bei der Anfrage ist ein unerwarteter Fehler aufgetreten (Domain „CalDAV No Calendar Home Error“/Fehler 1)." (sorry for the German message) - keeps me away from testing with iCal. I checked in the access log and the error log and cannot see any difference in the path to the Lightnng URL. Q: Can somebody give me a hint what this error mean? Sorry for the long list of questions. I would really like to use this package if I could see a clear path to solve my current issues/challenges... Thanks for any advice or hint that helps me to solve those questions... Jochen _______________________________________________ calendarserver-users mailing list calendarserver-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/calendarserver-users
