ICal OSX Leopard Server - My Solution!!

Hello...
Over the past 5 days I have reinstalled (clean/formatted) Leopard Server 6 times. I thought I was going crazy. Every error that has been seen on iCal (for the most part) I have seen (permission errors, 220 error, missing virtual accounts, no principals, etc, etc). I must have read 300 posts with different possible solutions. Some say you need ODS, and some say no. Some say you need DNS running, and some say not. Just like most of these forum posts, if you fix one error, you will get another one that will eventually stop you in your tracks. So out of respect for all those that have tried before me to get iCal working, I would like to offer what worked for me.
Here is the scenario. I have a small office - 10 users (all Mac). They want to share calendars (no group calendars here). OSX 10.5.2 Server on a Mac Mini. That's it... all I have asked for (for 5 days now) is a simple working sharable calendar system.
Here you go - this is what I know works.
1) New install of OSX Server 10.5 (in my case 10.5.2) - Erase drive and install
2) Installed as a Standard (yes I said standard server option)
3) DNS hostname at time of install is made up (this company has no domain) - so i set it to server.madeupdomain.com (remember the domain does NOT exist anywhere - it is just to get past the hostname validation during install). Make sure to enable iWeb and iCal of course.
4) Once the server is installed, I built my subscribers
5) By default, iCal and iWeb are enabled.
6) I DID NOT INSTALL the 10.5.3 upgrade!!!!!! On the other 5 installs, I DID install 10.5.3 and could never get iCal working.
7) Open up iCal and there should already be a CalDev calendar built under the server name. (there was for me anyway). I went into the account, selected server settings and changed the host and domain for the Account URL to the IP address of the server (this is all that I changed). So my Account URL now looks like this: http://ipaddress:8008/principals/uids/83xxxxxxxxxx....
8) Under Delegation, I added users under Manage Access to My Account
9) I went to the user's client iCal, and clicked on Calendar / Subscribe and put in: http://ipaddress*:8008/calendars/users/*username/calendar/
10) the calendar subscribed and I was able to see the calendar and make changes.
Keep in mind that this is all that the client wanted. So, this is what I know worked for me. Good Luck... in my opinion skip 10.5.3 if you can... and we can all say a prayer for 10.5.4.
-mountainzone

How big is the volume you're sharing.
Most Windows systems have problems with very large volumes (>2TB)). If your volume is larger than this limit then it may appear with incorrect size/space available.
I believe there are versions of Samba that support >2TB volumes, but I haven't check what version Apple ship in Leopard.

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