We are all on Macs (bar one remote) so there is no need for cross platform functionality
Although iCal uses a standard protocol so is cross-platform.
And it's free.
Have to agree that I'm surprised that Panther hasn't added Rendezvous support, I can understand it not being in the Jaguar version (which I am still on) as it would require a whole new release but I would have expected the new OS to include this on all apps now.
I may pluck up courage to have a go at the server thinggy. Is there some more information I can read somewhere to familiarize me with the concept of how a simple server on the machine might work without additional server software and how I may be able to justify doing the work because of other potential benefits beyond iCal.
I couldn't find any clearer instructions the last time I looked, you could try another web search though as maybe someone might have scripted the steps for you. I can give you an overview to the process though.
It all works without extra software because it is already provided as part of OS X, only it is not enabled by default. WebDAV is a protocol which allows you to access a network location over the HTTP protocol and so you only need to configure the inbuilt Apache web server to load the appropriate extension. This means you also need to have web sharing enabled.
The instructions I posted essentially get you to do two things. Firstly you need to create a folder which you intend to share via WebDAV, you also need to set the appropriate permissions on this folder so that it is is owned by the user account that OS X creates for the Apache server.
Once you have created the folder you then need to modify the settings file used by Apache so it knows to load the WebDAV module which unfortunately means editing a long text file called httpd.conf.
As I say it is very simple to make these changes but it's harder to explain what needs to be done because in the latter step you have to search through the httpd.conf file to find the appropriate places into which you need to make changes.
As for any other benefits of doing this, essentially you get your own local iDisk which anyone on your network can use, but as you will probably already have a system in place for sharing files over a network it doesn't really offer you anything.
I think I will have a go at writing some clearer instructions for the whole process though as even I found the instructions confusing when I originally followed them.
Michael
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