ICal - "Add a Mac OS X server account" fails

Hi all. I have finally got networked users working on my Lion Server environment however have hit a stumbling block with getting a shared iCal environment up and running. I have setup the iCal service to be on in Server.app however receive an error when trying to set up an account. Here are the steps I take.
1. Login as a user (have tried local administrators, network administrators and network users on both the server and clients).
2. System Preferences.
3. Mail, Contacts & Calendars.
4. Add Account - Other.
5. Add a Mac OS X server account, Create.
6. Select the Lion Server, Continue.
7. Have tried combinations of Full Name, Username and Password for different users.
8. When I click Setup it comes back with a message saying "Unable to verify user credentials".
There is the following entry in the console, but no other information available:
9/10/11 11:47:48.779 PM System Preferences: The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCFStreamErrorDomainHTTP error 404.)
I have googled everywhere and am out of ideas, does anyone have any suggestions please? Not even sure where to look next...
Thanks.

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How do i make sure my names match up? I've gone throught the naming wizzard several times but still no joy. Also tried using the server's ip addresses, name & hostname.
server IP is 192.168.0.50 and lookup shows;
Lookup has started…
Trying "50.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41223
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;50.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.          IN          PTR
;; ANSWER SECTION:
50.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 10800 IN          PTR          serverdanielcrabbe.com.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
50.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 10800 IN          NS          serverdanielcrabbe.com.
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