Calendar & Address Book Sharing - Cross Platform

I am setting up a LAN for a new business.
They will have a Mac OS X 10.4 server and less then 10 Macs. 2-3 Windows clients will be added too.
What they seek to accomplish it to share calendars and contacts across the LAN and across the platforms. They also want easy syncing with their Palm phones. Mail will be served from the ISP.
Can this be done with the tools supplied with OS X Server 10.4 and the Windows clients? Are there better 3rd party solutions to try?
Thanks for your time.
Gary Smith

Can this be done with the tools supplied with OS X
Server 10.4 and the Windows clients?
No.
Are there better
3rd party solutions to try?
This looks like an interesting one although I have not tested it...
http://www.xcnetwork.com/index.jsp
-david

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@taylor thanks for the suggestion, but it's not quite what i had in mind. The red -/green + buttons are used to add/remove more items in the same category, ie., phone numbers, email addresses, URLs, etc. If you finish editing a record and then click on one of these fields, you get a contextual menu with various options.
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I am trying to share my address book with my wife's Mac and here iPod touch. We both have a Mobile Me account (via the Family Pack). So I shared my address book and invited her. All worked so far. But: while my address book shows up on her Mac it appears to be empty. No addresses, nothing.
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All is not lost...
This post covers most of what you are looking for:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19673631#19673631
However one very important caveat... I would not call the OS X shared Calendar solution a real shared calendar as it has no real multi-user functionality. It is very basic, some might call it butt ugly — that's if I am reading its level of functionality correctly.
Meaning... when you set this up you have to make an extra 'shared' account for the address book (I would make an account with as little rights as possible!) and this account is filled into each client's (OS X, iOS) Address Book application. So if the real user is 'Fred' you don't use Fred's account details when you create the connection to the server Address Book. Make a fake user, e.g. 'CADD' on the server and fill that fake user name & password into the client Address Book app. As I said... ugh.

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Hi,
I've been wrestling with this problem for a few months now and have been unable to resolve it.
Problem
When I am in Address Book.app and select "Preferences" I get a spinning beach-ball of death. Eventually the preferences will appear. If I then select 'Sharing' I will once again get a spinning beach-ball that will eventually go away but the sharing preferences don't (usually) appear. At that point I also get an error in my console.log;
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I am running an up-to-date 10.4.10
I have no items in the 'Sharing' preference pane on either of my accounts.
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Things I have tried
1- I have verified my disk. No problems reported.
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3- I removed each of the 3 .plist files in ~/Library/Preferences/ in turn, logged out and in again and recreated the problem each time.
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5- I removed the (Skype) plugins in /Library/Address Book Plug-ins/ and the problem still occurs.
I wonder if there are any kind souls out there who can suggest any further debugging steps I could take to resolve this?
Thanks in advance.
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Austin,
The fonts validated OK so I removed Address Book.app plus the preferences using AppDelete. This deleted all the relevant files including the .data file that actually holds the address book.
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Anyway- long story short- after the reinstall and update back to 10.4.10 AB is working fine. Thanks!
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How does Address Book sharing work? Apple help not specific enough.

I've set up my home and work Macs, both with .Mac accounts, to share Address Book. But how do you actually do it? I don't see my work contacts on my home Mac, or vice-versa.
Any help would be appreciated.

I found the answer myself.

Address Book Shared via Server to Client

Hi guys!
Do you know a procedure in order to configure and share, Address Book from OSX_Server Leopard to all my clients???
At the moment, every single client has own addresses.....i want to share address book to all client!
Thank a lot!
Simone

This is a way of getting a company-wide address book with Address Book Server. It's been in this forum on numerous earlier threads, although is not necessarily a supported method by Apple:
1. Open WorkGroup manager.
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3. Change to "Local Directory" by clicking the "global" icon and click Groups.
4. Click "view" at the menu bar and select "Show system record". Then you will see "AB Read-Write Groups" in groups.
5. Click "add". At the top of pullout sidebar, change it to "LDAPv3/127.0.0.1", you will the "managers" group. Drag it into the "AB Read-Write Groups" groups.
6. Save it. Restart AB service in ServerAdmin.
7. Open AddressBook.app ( client ). In the preferences account, click add,
8. Enter user name and password ( eg. user1 ::: see above, which is in "managers" group. )
9. Enter "http://you-server-address:8800/principals/groups/managers/" in server address.
10. Click create.
11. Working.
HTH

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What measures is Apple taking to lock down security on iOS Address Book so contents not freely available to developers?

Those details are available to developers that have participated in an agreement and related NDAs.
Google is your friend to otherwise publically available info on iOS security.

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-mj

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