ICal installation questions / and publishing in local network

hello guys,
i am really sorry but i am not a "real" admin and i just have to get ical service running.
our target: publish a ical on our server so that other people can acess it
our situation:
- os x server 10.5.4.
- os clients 10.5 and 10.4
- all in a local network (we dont need it in the internet)
i started open directory master and i cal service is running as well (both green light in the server admin) our standard network user has the button for calendar usage/publishing activated. now i am a bit lost how to go on
i went to my local machine and tryed to publish a calendar but firs challenge:
- what domain do i type? http + server IP (172.17.0 ....) and then?
- i can use one of the standard users with this ical button activated or do i need to create this userrs also somehow in OD?
help is really apreciated, thanks!
jfk

Actually, you may not need the calendar server at all. If you want a single user to publish calendars for others to read/only then you can just use WebDAV publishing. Works great and is simple to setup and use.
Note that this is only an option if you want users to publish their calendars for others to read but not write to. If you want multiple-writer calendars or to use the cool availability window or locations and resources you should use the iCal Server.
Publish and subscribe WebDAV calendars has been a feature of iCal (client) for a long time. To use it all you need to do is enabled a Web site in Server Admin and set up a realm with read/write access for the appropriate user(s). In my example, I am assuming that you tust your users not to delete each other's calendars...
The step-by-step is going to take up more space than I have here so I'm going to post some instructions to my site at http://adozendozen.com/
I should have step-by-step instructions up later today.

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All definately valid points. I was able to get it to work if i mounted the smb share to my local filesystem but essentially i am trying to make the application portable so i dont have to mount a drive on the target machine (or create a windows drive map, etc). Although read(URL input) isnt exactly what i was looking for, it works good enough and gets the same end result. i just have to copy the image folder and serv it up via apache instead of samba.
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