Calendar Services working, now what?

Question

OK! so I managed to set up a new OS X server and managed to miraculously get Calendar to work. My experience is from iCal publish/subscribe era, and not exactly clear to me how this new protocol works.
Server:
Calendar Service is ON and I created 2 locations in "Location & Resources".
Network Users: User 1(me), and User 2. Only User 1 has admin priv.
Client:
I have successfully added a calendar account. BUT, if I authenticate with User 1, then I can see the 2 locations that I set up on the server, but can't see them if I authenticate as User 2.
I tried to edit the "Manage access to my account..." in iCal and gave write permissions to User 2, but still User 2 cannot see those calendars.
I realize that my problems are maybe that I am stuck in the publish/subscribe thinking, but have run out of ideas.
Questions:
Is there a setting somewhere on the server to allow users to see those location Calendars? Or a different authentication credentials?
Is this how it is supposed to work: If I want my assistant to read and write My Calendar, that I should add My Calendar to her client computer by authenticating using my credentials?
I am convinced I am missing something, because then what is the point of granting access to an account, that others still cannot see?!
Thank you in advance.
Patrick

Answer 1

For server based calendars and contacts there is no sharing across user accounts where you can have one person owning a calendar and you give another account read-only access.
It is pretty rudimentary actually nothing as sophisticated as available on platforms like Microsoft Exchange.
What you need to do (well what I did after I found out from my own research the level of functionality and how to set things up) is:
Create a pseudo account for DAV access (Calendar/Contacts) I set mine up as (where domain is 'example.com' and server is 'server.example.com'):
Name - "DAV Service Agent"
account short name = "davagent"
email = "[email protected]"
No home folder
Restrict to Calendar / Contacts / Mail services.
Create DNS service records:
Service type = _caldavs._tcp ; Port = 8443 ; Host = server.example.com
Service type = _carddavs._tcp ; rest of data as above
At client machines setup Calendar & Contacts to connect to server using pseudo user above.
It works, I have all Mac & iOS machines setup to have server based shared contacts and calendars.
Message was edited by: FromOZ. Changed server host name example