Access to Mac OS X Server with other platforms

Hi there,
I am running a Mac Mini Server and I want to access my iCal and iAdressbook from outside. This is perfectly working as long as the client is a Mac, an iPhone or an iPad. But what about other ways of accessing it?
Example: I tried to access my iCal server via Thunderbird with Lightening Add-On, but I didn´t get any connection up to now.
So my question is: Do anybody can help me here? I am not willing to use any special product (eg Thunderbird), my first step would be to get it working, so access from Windows Systems and also Linux PCs.
Greets,
Michael

Hey,
You should setup a web server and make it serv ical, contacts, ...
This is pretty straight forward, there are simple tick boxes that allow you to add these services.
Go to Server Admin
Add the service "web"
in "Sites" select the standard (*) and then in the bottom part click "web services"
There you have 4 tick boxes: "wiki" "blogs" "calender" and "mail"
If you tick these and start the service you should be able to http://yourserver.domain.com
and get a signin window for these services.
making this available from outside your network is another story.
First get it to work internally and then worry about the rest
This is the way to go I think.
Hope my very basic explanation of the concept points you in the right direction.
So you should read about the web server and CalDAV as well.
interesting link for all the technical stuff:
(this ensures weeks of reading pleasure )
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/documentation.html

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