How can I get Address Book Server to share contacts between users?

I want to have a Shared Address Book for the users on my installation of OS X Lion Server. Users will keep their own contacts individually but there are certain lists and contacts who need to be shared between users and I can't find any way of getting Lion Server to do this. I know it was a problem in Snow Leopard Server but I hoped it had been fixed.
Any suggestions?

Create a new user on the Server called 'ouraddressbook' or whatever. Exit the Server. Into Address Book on your Admin/Client machine create a new Account. Account type is CardDAV, Username and Password the same as the User you created on the Server… 'ouraddressbook' or whatever, and then enter your Server's address as text or numbers. Click creat and the rest is straight forward. Now give the set up details of that new Account to the others who want to share your 'ouraddressbook' with you.The Clients must have, I think, Mac OS 10.6  or upwards to have an Address Book that with co-operate.
You will see a new group in Address Book.
If you don't already know, do not add accounts to Address Book or iCal on the Server. Everything is Admin and Client Side. In the beginning I was also adding accounts to iCal and Address on the Server. It works fine but it is just one extra thing that could become corrupted. Let the Server 'serve' the Users you create on it.
Hit me if you have problems.

Similar Messages

  • How can I get address book 4.1.2 to work with osx 10.6.7

    How do I get address book 4.1.2 to work with osx 10.6.7

    You probably can't, but you can start by posting your queston in the correct forums...the OS X Mail and Address Book forums, as this forum is for troubleshooting Apple Software Update for Windows, a software package for Windows designed to update Apple products that run on Windows, and not related to your question in any way.

  • How can i migrate address book server to iCloud?

    I was hoping to export an archive of Address Book which is running on my 10.6 server so that I could import it to iCloud's address book. 
    How can I do this?  I can't see any functionality to import in iClouds's Address Book.
    Do I have to have all of these server contacts "On My Mac" before iCloud will play ball?
    thanks!

    GFMA wrote:
    I don't see a way to import specifically to iCloud.  I tried this but when I select import, it jsut imports it back to the server AB.  I can't select for it to overwrite iCloud.
    As for the vCard option, thats for individual contacts no?  I have thousands of contacts... that would take forever!
    Thanks for your help, bu what am I missing here?
    I suggested exporting to an Address Book Archive, did you do that or did you choose vcard?

  • How can I import address book from thunderbird on another computer

    I just purchased a new laptop and have dowloaded Thunderbird for my e-mail as that was what I was using on desktop. I have 2 e-mail accounts, my personal e-mail addresses came thru with no difficulty however my other account the contacts in address book didn't come thru. So question is how can I get address book imported for this account too. My desktop is Windows XP and my laptop is Windows 8
    thanks for any help

    The neat thing to do would be to copy the profile from the XP machine to the W8 machine. This would have transferred your messages, your account settings and your Address Book and much else.
    Given that you have set up Thunderbird and have started using it, copying over the profile may not now be terribly attractive for you.
    So, instead, you can export and import your Address Books.
    On the XP computer, open the Address Book, select an address book (e.g. Personal Address Book), select '''Tools|Export''', select the name and location of a file to contain the exported data, choose LDIF and then Save. Repeat for each required address book. Give your LDIF files simple but meaningful names, such as PAB.ldif and CA.ldif. Don't use, for instance, ''Personal Address Book.ldif'', as this will create a second address book with the same name as one of the defaults and you won't be able to easily tell which is which.
    Put the exported LDIF files where the W8 computer can see them, e.g. a USB memory stick.
    On the W8 machine, open the address book, Tools|Import and select an exported LDIF file. It will import and create a new address book; you'll probably want to move the Contact data back to the usual address book. You can select all (ctrl+a) then drag-and-drop the imported Contacts to the preferred address book. Repeat for each LDIF file.
    Having said that, I don't understand what you mean by "my personal e-mail addresses came thru with no difficulty however my other account the contacts in address book didn't come thru"; unless you have moved the profile folder over, I don't understand why ''any'' contacts should have transferred.
    If you have in fact moved the profile folder, then I'm puzzled as to why the transfer of address books has been incomplete. However the export and import route should be able to reclaim the missing address book(s).

  • HowI get Address Book Server sync with clients?

    I have just set up Lion Server on a macmini and am learning how to set it up.  I cannot get address Book server to sync with client accounts.
    The server is function is active.  The users are properly set up, and the clients have been connected to the server and a Mac OSX Server Address Book created.  I have also set up the address book on the Mac Mini with an OSX Server addresss book.  It should show the same entries as the client and sync wherever changes are made.  Not a sausage....nothing......  The little 'wheel' whizzes round and does......... you have got it........ nothing.
    I thought this was easy to use?
    Any help would be welcome.

    Hi,
    Yes the sync tool is a standalone utility (you don't need the outlook connector installed). I finally got around to installing/configuring the latest version (comm-suite-5 sync tool) against my 2005Q4 test install.
    The addressbook server is the UWC address as I mentioned before but you also need to include the /uwc on the end.
    So for my system I have the following setting:
    local.sso.uwc.verifyurl = http://test-system.sun.com:82/uwc/VerifySSO?
    This maps to a :
    => Address Book Server: test-system.sun.com/uwc
    => Port: 82
    So in your case it would be:
    local.sso.uwc.verifyurl = http://hostname:6788/uwc/VerifySSO?
    => Address Book Server: hostname/uwc
    => Port: 6788
    Regards,
    Shane.

  • How can I move address book to numbers/excel?

    How can I move address book to numbers/excel? I tried to follow the instructions from a not-too-recent forum, but am not getting the same results. Help!

    Alas, the process doesn't transfer every datas.
    (1) Custom fields aren't passed
    (2) Due to localization oddities, even some standard fields aren't passed.
    Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 22 février 2012
    iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.3
    My Box account  is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

  • My wife and I each have an iPhone and an iPad Mini.  We have separate iTunes accounts.  She just finished reading a book on her iPad Mini.  Now I want to read it on my iPad Mini.  How can I get the book on my iPad Mini?

    My wife and I each have an iPhone 4s and an iPad Mini.  We have separate iTunes accounts.  She just finished reading a book on her iPad Mini.  Now I want to read it on my iPad Mini.  How can I get the book on my iPad Mini?

    Thank you for your reply Domingo.  Your suggestion worked as far as sending me a link to buy the book at iTunes.  But it did not allow me to download the book from my wife's account.  I did finally get an answer from Apple.  It took an entire day of emailing back and forth and the final answer was relatively easy once Apple finally decided to give up the solution.  Basically, you have to open ibooks and sign out.  Then you have to sign into ibooks using the book purchaser's Apple ID and password.  Then you can download the book onto your device.  Not too bad, huh?  It only took a whole day of Apple people sending me wrong instructions before they figured it out.  Geez.  What a disappointing experience.

  • How can I get my books that I download from the Library that are WMA files into my I tunes so I can listen to them

    How can I get my books that I download from the Library that are WMA files into my I tunes so I can listen to them. They have a ton of books but I can only listen to them from my windows media player and I wouldlove to download to my I pod but I have tried everything I can think of it they won't go over.  Someone said all I had to do was copy them over and they would convert but I can't even get them to copy.  Thanks.

    Well it started happening AGAIN with my 2nd IPod. No matter what I did, it Itunes would NOT restore it!
    I finally installed Itunes on my hubby's PC at work and managed to get it restored there.
    Apparently, there must be some sort of compatibility issue with the windows version of Itunes and some other piece of software on my pc.
    And one more important thing! I had to follow the instructions in the other thread that talks about how to correctly uninstall itunes and quicktime, in order to completely eliminate ALL traces of my "first" ipod's existence so it wouldn't demand that I restore it.
    I think the software got "confused" and thought when I connected my 2nd ipod, that it was the 1st and that it still needed to be restored.
    Basically, this is just POORLY written and POORLY tested software!

  • How can I get a book to open that is downloaded on my Ipad 3, I have uninstalled, reinstalled. Held the turn off button and home button down to reboot, nothing has helped.

    How can I get a book to open in my nook app, it downloaded, and installed, it just want open, I have never had this problem before.

    This is entirely my complaint.
    I have to sit without useable internet for 5 days when there is no fault, before anyone does anything about it ? BT visit the village to do something for another customer, mess up my perfectly working broadband, and then refuse to do anything about it for 5 days. And I pay full price during that time. Let's just hope they don't come back to do something else within those 5 days !!!
    There isn't a fault with the line, it is perfectly stable. I just need somebody to use common sense and set the IP profile back to what it was.
    If the system is so clever, it could at least try moving off 135k to 512k say after an hour or so.
    I will try using that link though and see if somebody can do something !!
    Frustrated is not the word ! If I ran my business like this I'd have no customers left. I'm pretty sure that's not the first time somebody has posted that on here

  • How can I get the book box in preferences' general tab to show up so I can start adding books to my ipad?

    How can I get the book box in preferences' general tab to show up so I can start adding books to my ipad? I am running OSX 10.9 and Itunes version 11.1.3(8) 64 bit.  I have tried re-installing Maveriks and reinstalling Itunes but the box for books is never there when I click on Preferences' General Tab.
    I am unsure what to do.  Please help.

    There is no "book box in preferences' general".
    There is a new iBooks application that appears on Mavericks' dock.  It looks like this:
    Go there to add books from your Mac to your iPad.

  • How can I sync address book to iPhone 3?

    How can I sync address book from mac book pro to iPhone 3?

    Have you tried this article: iOS: Syncing with iTunes - Support - Apple
    Go to the Info Tab in iTunes

  • How can i backup Address Book & iCal using TM?

    How can i backup Address Book & iCal using TM?

    just back up your whole computer and those things will be backed up along with everything else. Time Machine is not well suited for cherrypicking just a few things to back up and it's a bad idea anyway. if you insist on backing up just those two things back up homedirectory/library/application support/address book and homdirectory/library/calendars.

  • I'm in India and use Indian iTune store. But there are certain books which are not avaiable in Indian store but are there in US store. How can i get those books?

    I'm in India and use Indian iTune store. But there are certain books which are not avaiable in Indian store but are there in US store. How can i get those books?

    Hi Jai Shree Hari,
    Yeah, I don't see why you shouldn't be able to sign your friend's iTunes sign-on into iTunes, and then use that to download the books. You may need to also authorize your computer in iTunes with that ID in order to be able to re-download them to your device if you ever need to (not sure if this is absolutely required since most things live in the cloud now, but better to be safe than sorry.... ).
    Best of luck!
    Cheers,
    GB

  • How can I get my book on Itunes?

    How can I get my book on itunes? My book is allready on Amazon.com
    Message was edited by: tiodoro

    Hello tiodoro:
    Here is a FAQ about publishing and distribution with iBooks Author:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5071#5
    And a guide to publish iBooks from osxdaily.com:
    http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/29/how-to-publish-an-ibook-to-the-apple-ibookstore/
    Hope this help.
    Greetings.

  • I have Kindle books on iPad that I didn't download from Amazon.  How can I get these books on my Mac Pro Kindle app

    I have Kindle books on iPad that I didn't download from Amazon.  They are also on iCloud.  How can I get these books onto Mac Pro Kindle app?

    Contact iTunes Store Customer Service.
    tt2

Maybe you are looking for