Accessing Address Book Remotely from PC

I want to access/update my address book (on a Mac at home) from work (on a PC). Can this be done?

Short answer has to be no.
Longer - well, I suppose you could mount your Mac hard disk (using SMB?) on the Windows PC, which would let you see the address book data file - but that isn't going to be readable by a Windows program. You could consider running a Mac emulator on your windows machine, and so run Address Book, but you would still have the problem of persuading AB to look for its data file on the remote Mac rather than the local emulated one. You could go for more complicated(!!) solutions - run an app on the mac that would respond to messages from the PC, to retrieve or modify AB data. You could probaly even set up a web application on the mac to simplify it. But is it worth the effort?
What are you trying to do?
AK

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