ICal server setup.

Heya Guys,
I have an OS X server in Standard mode running 10.5.6
I have File sharing and VPN running fine but now I am trying to configure iCal.
The server users the DNS name 10.0.1.2 - it's IP address.
I have created the server calDAV account in iCal on the server and it lets me create calendars under the server but I can't get clients to add the calendars on the server.
The users are being recognized by the server as I can set up delegation and so forth just can get the users to add the calendars into there client versions of iCal.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.

Hi Guys,
Just in case it helps anyone out I will post what made it work for me.
The URL for the server that was auto populating wasn't correct for some reason.
I removed the calDAV account in iCal on the server and created a new one with auto generating URL
One I created the calDAV account I copied the URL and saved it as a text document on one of the share points. I then connected to the share point from the client and copied the URL.
I created a new calDAV account on the client with the credentials and pasted the URL.
Now I am able to create events on the client and have them sync with the server. Hope someone finds this useful.

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ICal Server setup help !!!

Hello All,
I would like to share my experience with setting up the iCal server and all the hick ups I had to get it finally working. At least what worked for me. Check the basics before you start.
This is all done from after installing the server in Advanced setup or so to say normal installation as it was under Tiger. I'm trying to summarize what I have done. It took me a lot of hours do. So if I mis something feel free to reply with the missing things. Maybe together we can setup a working manual for all others that have problems with the setup and lack documentation from Apple.
1) Make sure your DNS is setup properly and working. Test it with:
type: “named-checkconf” in de root account of the terminal. Nothing should happen thats OK
type: “named-checkzone” in de root account of the terminal make sure you use the complete path and bare in mind that Apple changed the DNS setup again pointing to something like var/named/zones/db.example.come.zone.apple. The serial of the DNS should load and you should receive a OK. Make sure that your server IP is also mentioned in the system preferences/network DNS so you can use for example the server.example.com in server admin.
2) Either use SSL or don't when you want to use, use it everywhere otherwise it something will slip trough and want work. Without SSL it appears to work easier in the setup from local iCal client to server. But SSL is of course more secure. I want talk about Kerberos because I'm not able to get that to work yet.
3) Make sure you set it up from an "Open directory", "Local directory" should/could work to but I haven't test that yet and I seriously doubt it would work properly.
That being said I now can share my setup with you (switch your firewall of during setup it's easier to troubleshoot, switch it on again if everything works. If it stops working after the firewall is on again, well you know where to look for the problem :-)):
1) After setting up the Open Directory Master I switched on SSL and created a own certificate for my server. I didn't protected the certificate with a password as it gives a lot of extra problems with setting things it up. You can than select the certificate under Server Admin/Open Directory click on setting and click the tab LDAP. There you can select it.
2) Make sure your webserver is running and you have a working website where you can go to. Under Server Admin make sure that under the selection Sites that your FQDN is filled out. Being something like www.example.com and not example.com. The second one could cause iCal web part to not work accordingly at least that is my experience. After that choose security and make sure SSL is on and your certificate is selected. The rest of the website settings is pretty basic I didn't changed to much. I do know that I switched on some extra modules. Being bonjour_module, authzsvnmodule, davsvnmodule. This prevented further in the installation the 210 error when I went to the Calendar under my webbrowser. I wouldn't know which of the 3 is doing the trick I only know that after this it worked for me.
3) Pffffff OK go to the iCal Server settings under the Server Admin. The settings are straight forward but again make sure SSL is on and your certificate is selected. And look at your host name which should be someting like server.example.com. If you are not able to get DNS setup properly you could try your machines example.local name. But that again could give troubles when you want to use local iCal client outside the door on a laptop for example.
These where all the server admin setting. Now go to the Workgroup Manager and selected the group/groups you want to have Calendaring switched on and choose the way people are able to logon. This you can do by going to the group select the default website and services you want to give. Then select under Allow the way people can logon to this website or iCal services.
When that's done you should have everything up and running on the server site. So now go to a local iCal client and go to preferences/accounts/server setting. Click the + on the left bottom site and fill out a name and password leave the server option for now to auto. This way and when everything is setup properly you should get something like https://server.example.com:8443/principals/_uids_/14A0DD22-86CA-4F55-96D9-9CB461640D52/. The end number should refer to your name and password account so the number want be the same as in this example. Well if it works you are one of the lucky people and you are able to setup a shared Calendar from there. It would help a lot if you have more than one machine to test. Because it didn't worked on my MacBook Pro getting a famous error "iCal unexpected secure name resolution" But it did worked on my wifes iMac. So the server settings are OK. Now the good part when it's not working is that you can go to your webbrowser and type or copy the following: https://www.example.com:8443/principals/users/shortname (naturally use your own server name and user name). There you can see details of the principals settings. Including youre uids number. This number is unique for your name and password. Copy this number. Then go back to iCal switch of the auto find in iCal client under preferences/accounts/server settings. The first part of the link is https://server.example.com:8443/principals/uids/(Now paste you number here). Hit enter and see what happens. It the name server is not working for you than use for example iso server the name mail if you have it setup in the DNS is should work. It did worked for me and it gave me a nice shared calendar which you can name for yourself. Every group member should be able to see this agenda once hooked up to it via iCal client and prefences/accounts/server settings.
If you go to your website or www.example.com/groups you should see youre shared group. Sorry I only tried it with one group sofar. If you make changes to the calendar from the webbrowser it will show up after a refresh in your iCal client and visa versa. The only thing I still have problems with is the events for more days. They show up on the web as events but when I click them they produce a unwanted error. But when it's based on a single day than it work perfectly.
Hopefully you have a working iCal server to now. If you find something interesting or you think I left some important things out. Please reply and fill out the blanks.
I just hope that it will save some time for the new once setting this up.

Thank you for sharing your experiences. I am looking at setting up an iCal server myself for our business. However, our situation is a bit different. Could you also share what kind of workgroup you set it up for? And maybe help me answer a few questions below. Thanks in advance!
First a little background. We are a small management company. We have individual clients that we manage. We need to have access to their calendars to schedule events, etc. The thing is that we would be the only ones looking at everyone else's calendars at once so that we can coordinate our own schedules so that we can be where it is most important but still not lose track of other activities.
1. What kind of machine are you running the iCal Server on? Xserve? MacPro?
2. Is it possible to view multiple users' calendars within a single calendar view?
3. Does setting up this kind of calendar server sound like the setup for our situation where only we, the management, will be able to view all calendars?
4. How difficult will this set up be on our clients and their machines since we have little control over their personal machines? (The majority of our clients are all Mac users. There may be one PC user.)

I'm not a File Server tech-iCal Server setup decision? Was using NUTD

I've read thru the iCal Server Admin pdf multiple times. There is a ton of server related knowledge required to successfully set iCal Server up.
I don't have it (the knowledge) and don't have time to dedicate to learning it.
My company used to use Now Up To Date Server. Those folks actually did a great job of making it simple compared to iCal Server. NUTD did not work with iCal.
So I was hoping to be able to setup the iCal Server without a ton of back-office knowledge required.
*Can anyone suggest some help as to how I can get this working without having to becoming a Server Tech?*

I feel you pain. Wish Apple would just buy NUTD. I have subscribed to your question and am seeking answers myself. If I find anything I will try to share with you. This software is so un-Apple.

ICal server setup, Lion Server

Can anybody give me a brief run down on setup and syncing iCal on lion server with a lion client.
I'm having lots of trouble trying to share 5 existing calanders that used to be on a client. I have export the Calander and imported it to the server.
Every time I set up the client to read calanders on the server they can only see the default on not the 5 others that have been imported.
Thanks
Jeff

Create a new user on the Server called 'Jeff Calendar' or whatever.
Exit the Server.
Into iCal on your Admin/Client machine create a new Account. Account type is CalDAV, Username and Password are the same as the User you created on the Server… 'Jeff Calendar' 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 'Jeff Calendar' with you.The Clients must have, I think, Mac OS 10.6 or upwards to have an iCal that with co-operate.
You will see a new group in iCal.
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.

Setup iCal server accessible to the LAN via web browser

Hello guys,
I am newbie in mac server and I believe there are lots of guys over there that could help me.
Here's my environment:
Software/Server: Mac OS X Server 10.6
Hardware: Mac Mini Server Snow Leopard
LAN/internet Setup:
Broadband -> router -> mac mini server
-> mac users
-> pc users
Now, here's my scenario:
The mac mini is already running (OS is already installed) and act a normal computer usage like internet browsing, doing some documents and so on and so forth. But now, we decided to make the mac mini server as a server(calendar (iCal) server, address book server, web-server). I'm not so much familiar with DNS, DHCP or networking things to make the client computers connected to server.
My main concern is that I want the calendar to be accessible via web browser in our local network (something like this -> http://calendar.company/ or can access via IP address of the server like.. http://192.168.1.20/), in this case Mac and PC users connected to our LAN(router) can able to access and share their our calendar.
Now questions are:
1. How can I setup the mac mini server and calendar server to be accessible via web browser to the mac and pc users?
2. Do I still need to setup DNS and public IP for my server?
3. Where can I get a step by step tutorials that I could follow?
All recommendations and comments are all appreciated
Thanks in advance,
Emmman

I can't find any clear and step by step instructions with my concern. I am not expecting this to be easy(can setup even non-IT) as apple advertise but as I am reading the documentations I notice these things to be properly setup:
1. Functional DNS system. - This is a high level networking Stuff(Non-IT can't even understand it).
2. IP addresses, reverse IP's etc - Non-IT can't even understand it
3. Router Configurations - Non-IT can't even understand it.
and so on and so forth.
We, the newbie on mac server just need a clear and step by step scenario on how to setup the whole thing.
Thank you.

Ical server account setup

Hello, we/re trying to share a calendar and my wife is trying to set up an iCal server account. The prompts ask her Apple ID and password but also the "user name"? What is the user name in this case? She thinks she never needed to choose a user name when signing up with Apple. But the Apple ID doesn't work here either, for the "user name" box (there's a separate box for the Apple ID).
I guess she doesn't have the iCloud set up either, to begin with, and that's why the shared calendar doesn't appear on her Calendar sidebar.
Any assistance, please?
Br,
Juha

The answer is to use the "advanced" setting for configuring the account - then enter the username in the format of
[email protected]
enter the server name in the server field
and I am now connected

Setup ICal Server 3 and Contacts

I want to set up a shared calender for my family with Lion Server but:
-the only option i get in is to add locations and rescources witch no one can see except for the represtatative.
-If i add the webserver with webcal it works just fine with a calender for every user but not a shared one
-if i want to add the calender with ical i get the error Message that there is no running ical Server or i entered the wrong url.
We Have very slow internet around here so it would be important that the ical Account works that you dont need the slow webcal.
Thanks for your help :-)
Greeting Locke

Just bumping this, hoping that someone can provide some feedback on this. Thanks!

ICal Server/caldavd and a non-OD/AD LDAP setup.

I'm trying to get caldavd working on my new Leopard Server install, but I've been hitting a few roadblocks.
The server was upgraded from Tiger, and the upgrader put the new system into "Advanced" mode, so I have Server Admin instead of Server Preferences. I'd like to stay in advanced mode, rather than reinstalling to workgroup mode.
When the server was running Tiger, it was not running an OD server at all, just binding to our existing LDAP infrastructure for user authentication. After the upgrade, it was still in that mode. However, trying to start iCal server got me the "No virtual host" error.
I switched the server to be an OD master, while keeping our own LDAP servers below localhost in the search order. This created the Computers entry I needed, and the iCal server started up.
However, it's still not working. I tried to enable Calendaring for the diradmin user (as a test) and I get the following message when I run caldavd -Xf /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist:
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [OpenDirectoryService] Populated record: <OpenDirectoryRecord[users@058167af-ace8-519a-ac3d-e166498db024(/Search)] 89BD1949-A296-4579-8F66-A1A90052B438(diradmin) 'Directory Administrator'>, with GUID: 89BD1949-A296-4579-8F66-A1A90052B438
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] Traceback (most recent call last):
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/bin/twistd", line 21, in <module>
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] run()
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 27, in run
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] app.run(runApp, ServerOptions)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 379, in run
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] runApp(config)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 23, in runApp
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] _SomeApplicationRunner(config).run()
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 157, in run
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] self.application = self.createOrGetApplication()
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 202, in createOrGetApplication
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] ser = plg.makeService(self.config.subOptions)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/tap.py", line 593, in makeService
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] service = serviceMethod(options)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/tap.py", line 360, in makeService_Slave
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] baseDirectory = directoryClass(**config.DirectoryService['params'])
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/directory/appleopendirectory.py", line 107, in _init_
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] self.recordsForType(recordType)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/directory/appleopendirectory.py", line 392, in recordsForType
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] return self._storage(recordType)["records"]
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/directory/appleopendirectory.py", line 369, in _storage
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] self.reloadCache(recordType)
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/directory/appleopendirectory.py", line 495, in reloadCache
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] if recordShortName in disabled_names or guid in disabled_guids:
2008-03-17 15:46:20-0500 [-] [caldav-8009] [-] TypeError: list objects are unhashable
Here is the output of dscl /Search -read /Users/diradmin:
dsAttrTypeNative:apple-generateduid: 89BD1949-A296-4579-8F66-A1A90052B438
dsAttrTypeNative:apple-serviceslocator: FA7596AD-76CA-4139-B885-83E442E7F8D1:A73D8EC2-76A2-4F61-A4DA-A32ED611A72C:calen dar
dsAttrTypeNative:authAuthority: [snip]
dsAttrTypeNative:cn:
Directory Administrator
dsAttrTypeNative:gidNumber: 20
dsAttrTypeNative:givenName: Directory
dsAttrTypeNative:homeDirectory: /Users/diradmin
dsAttrTypeNative:loginShell: /bin/bash
dsAttrTypeNative:objectClass: inetOrgPerson posixAccount shadowAccount apple-user extensibleObject organizationalPerson top person
dsAttrTypeNative:sn: Administrator
dsAttrTypeNative:uid: diradmin
dsAttrTypeNative:uidNumber: 1000
dsAttrTypeNative:userPassword: ******
AppleMetaNodeLocation: /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1
AuthenticationAuthority: [snip]
FirstName: Directory
GeneratedUID: 89BD1949-A296-4579-8F66-A1A90052B438
LastName: Administrator
NFSHomeDirectory: /Users/diradmin
Password: ******
PrimaryGroupID: 20
RealName:
Directory Administrator
RecordName:
diradmin
Directory Administrator
RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Users
ServicesLocator: FA7596AD-76CA-4139-B885-83E442E7F8D1:A73D8EC2-76A2-4F61-A4DA-A32ED611A72C:calen dar
UniqueID: 1000
UserShell: /bin/bash
Does anyone have any suggestions for debugging this issue?
This is, of course, just the first step. My next step is to use Directory Utility to map openldap attributes to opendirectory attributes. That actually seems to be working OK, but I can't know for sure until I get the server working for OD users.
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: Ed F
Message was edited by: Ed F

There is something odd about a record the server is trying to load. Can you try this:
1) In Workgroup Manager disable calendaring for ALL users.
2) Restart calendar server and see if it starts up (it should).
3) Create a new user in Workgroup Manager and enable calendaring on that one only.
4) Restart calendar server and see if it starts up.
5) For the existing users, enable calendaring on each one and try and find the one that causes the calendar server to not startup.
6) Once you have identified the problem record, do a dump of its attributes via dscl and post here.

Ical client setup with 10.6 server

I have iCal server up and running on my 10.6 server and everything seems to be working right. however I have set the server side up to use ssl and have opened those ports on my firewall which works. My problem is that after setting up a user I send out the welcome email and that has the configure my mac link. Which was done before I change the iCal server settings to use ssl. And now every time I go in and manually set the server settings to use ssl on the client side and quit and reopen ical another account is added without the ssl settings. How do i get it to stop automatically adding an account to iCal?

This looks like a bug in the iCal client. I, too, have had problems with delegated calendars and end users mistaking events for being missing, not updated or incorrect only because their local copy was not synced with the true copy on the server. The refresh rate on delegated calendars can be changed with the "Refresh calendars: [ Every 1 minute ]" preference. You can verify this by right-clicking or control-clicking on the delegated calendar and choosing "Show CalDAV Queue." This brings up a queue of activity with the iCal Server. You'll note at the top that it mentions "Refresh every 1 minute."
The problem, of course, is if you quit iCal and recheck the "Show CalDAV Queue" on the delegated calendar, the refresh interval has reverted to some long interval like 300 or 900 minutes. This is a bug, for sure. For now, you can tell your clients not to quit iCal or to refresh manually or reset the refresh interval whenever they restart iCal/their computer, etc.

10.5.1 Server Setup - Help Make it all Work!

Hello Everyone, I currently have a new MacMini running 10.5.1 with our Calendar, Wiki and File Sharing. I have recently just returned from the Mac OS 10.5 Training Session from Chicago Columbia College and was astonished at what their demo servers did versus what mine has never done lol. We are a small tech company and there isn't much yet in the way of documentation or training or even training materials for Leopard Server. So I wanted to share some of what we learned from the training seminar and hopefully someone will know the proper answers to my questions. This is going to be a bit long winded but I think it's important to convey my questions/concerns.
1. Ok initial setup of our Leopard server requires you to input a host name and then the domain name. Well after the first install of Leopard we found as I have read amongst the posts for the past 2 hours that if you place let's say macmini in the host-name field then place domain.com in the domain field. After the server setup is complete Leopard Server wants you to chat, vpn, and browse to http://macmini.domain.com/groups as well as mail. This is all well and good if you have access to DNS like I do and can easily make changes to the MX & A records but if your a typical SMB user then you won't and this means that once your e-mail is setup and your ready to start using your server anyone you e-mail will come from [email protected] and not [email protected] which is a huge problem. So be cautious here. I was instructed by Apple after scratching their head to leave the host-name blank and only fill in the domain name here if your on let's say a T1 or other medium with a static IP pointed at your machine or router. So this is my first pet peve, there is a sloppy work around to this by telling the server to receive e-mail for domain.com as well but still whenever you send it comes from the original domain.
2. Application Setup - Single Sign-on - When I attended Leopard training this week in Chicago I was amazed at how whenever a user (demo -lab environment) logged into ichat, ical, wiki or e-mail there was simple single sign-on kerberos auth. What I mean by this is once the server is up and running and your Mac connects to the network for the first time either by manual add thru the directory application or a new Mac that finds the Leopard server automatically at first boot and you auth a user on the server to that Mac then there is just a single signon from that point on, NOT! For us our users log into their machines, (mind u they are already users on the Leopard server and can log in just fine) and they try to go to their e-mail for the first time it always fails. We then have to disable SSL over SMTP and IMAP and manually type in their passwords because the MacMail clients cannot trust the SSL cert or we simply just delete their accounts and recreate them from scratch. Same happens with iChat. By design when you auth your Mac against the server, the server auto configs the security and client apps, i.e. mail, ichat, directory, VPN, ical. But iCal has consistently failed setup across 5 server builds and 10 clients. What will happen is when you go to prefs in ichat you see your account but it can't auth you and doesn't show up in ical for your personal server calendar. If you manually remove your user account and re-add it works great. But next time you go to ichat, once again you have to recreate. And I can recreate this all day long. But at the demo it worked like magic. So that is problem number two, SSL and single sign-on does not really work and app auto-config does not work at all.
3. Apple Airport Extreme 802.11N. - As a test and per Apple's recommendation for SMB clients we picked up a new Airport. We patched it and setup user/pass info and setup DHCP on the device for so if server fails we have internet. And during server setup it logged into Airport and tried to configure settings. We were on the net and all was good after server setup. However with VPN enabled per user in Standard mode on server we have only been able to gain VPN access for clients if they are actually inside the network. I have spent about 10 hours back and forth with Apple Support trying to get VPN to work outside. The Manual setup of new Airport Port-Mapping is simple but crude. It does not seem to work. And there is a default hosts setting which should translate to an open DMZ but does not. So that is third on my list, running a MacMini with 2gig's of RAM which is within SPEC for Leopard Server and using the Apple Recommended solution of an Airport Extreme N does not work for s&*% and I would be very surprised if anyone here has gotten that to work.
4. E-Mail Services - As stated prior Leopards auto app setup utility does not work for crap unless by some magic there are other steps besides the ones outlined and printed with the purchase of server. But the main thing about mail is that we are missing the basics. I mean your going to be hard pressed to find ANY e-mail application on the market today, Notes, Exchange, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, iMail or other that does not include basic vacation/out of the office message replies. This is a huge issue for any small business or for that matter any size business that wants to automate things when they are out and I think this is one of my small peeves but certainly worth a listing here.
5. VPN - We have tried like **** to get the VPN to work thru the Airport as previously noted but we have also connected MacPro with 2 nics, one for net and one for LAN and not been able to connect to the server from outside our network. Here is my largest frustration, we currently run SBS2003 from MSFT and they run flawlessly. I have literally sat with clients in their office during a new setup for SBS and in 3-4 hours we were up and running with minimal system level changes from the guided path. And for Apple to advertise this in the manual and all online materials as being SMB friendly is a complete slap in the face. Now don't confuse my above descriptions of problems we have seen across 5 Leopard builds as being a rant because it's not but seriously I am a network engineer with 10 years in the field working with 20+ product ranges and in our office we only use Mac because of stability and uptime. But OS X 10.5 is not Small Business Friendly at all even with the half hearted attempt at the new System Admin console for SMB users. However that being said I will still push on and try to get all these little bugs worked out and what I would really like to see is some feedback on my issues and I would love to know if anyone else has had similar issues. I really had hoped that 10.5 could help my firm finally push the proper solution (Mac OS X) for our SMB clients but it just isn't there yet.
Cheers,
DM

Thanks for the quick read and response. Do you feel the issue might lie with the fact that it is a Mac Mini? And possibly just not powerful enough to run Leopard Server? I have to say in our trials with MacPro it was like night and day as to how they performed. And if you could elaborate on this "Many VPNs don't play well with NAT so your VPN server should have a direct connection to the public network (preferably firewalled, of course, but not NATted)." Most every SoHo and for that matter uses simple NAT translation for security even our multi thousand dollar Cisco PIX and ASA's are basic NAT devices to start with. How would you put the VPN on public net while keeping the attack surface low for the rest of the services like file, web, mail and print?
Don't get me wrong I want this to work more than you can imagine. We are so tired of supporting MSFT technologies that cost thousands a year in antivirus, antispyware, antispam and other malware protection for the enterprise. We know that Leopard has great potential but for an integrator, getting this system up and functional is not an easy task. And the worst part of it is every time we have called for support the tech always lets out a sigh when they hear we have run standard setup because they are not allowed to walk us thru the server console to make repairs. And have been told by 3 techs so far that this is a new product and the support avenues are not there for standard since it just supposed to work out of the box. But when it doesn't then ohh well. Which is sorta sad...
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Address Book and iCal Server backups

I'm working to implement a company-wide Address Book, iCal, and iChat server via Lion Server where I work, and I've gotten most of the setup figured out (I think), and am approaching the point where I can roll it out to a few users for further testing. However, before I'm allowed to move forward any further w/ it I have to have two means of backing up in place and ready to be rolled out at the same time as the server—so I'm planning on using Time Machine as one so it does the entirety of the server and its data/settings, but they also want me to do one of the Address Book Server and iCal Server databases individually, like back up the folder the data is, so we can, if ever necessary, import the backup databases to another computer, so we at least have the content, if not the full server functionality. And, for obvious reasons, it can't be backed up locally.
So I'm looking for a means of doing this and would love any input anyone has. Ease of use/setup is pretty important as this is my first time setting Server up and I've no programming knowledge. I'm fairly sure I'll be able to find (or write my own, though that's unlikely) or modify and AppleScript that simply copies/duplicates a Finder item, and I know I can have iCal automatically run a script (so I'd just have it run every night at midnight or something), but I have yet to figure out how to get the script to copy the folder to a specified location on a different server (or, for that matter, if it's even possible, though I'm sure it is...right?). But that's not what I'm trying to ask here...though I certainly wouldn't mind if someone had thoughts on it and wanted to share them ! I just really would like to know which folders to back up, since it's not simply making an archive of the local Address Book.app database.
And, since I'm already here writing a post, I'll ask one other question that's been nagging at me: in Server Admin.app, with the server (not the services) selected in the sidebar on the left, the Access pane selected in the primary Server Admin window, and Services selected, and trying to dictate which users/groups can access which services, the user can click the "+" in the lower-left corner of the window where added users would appear, and another window pops up next to the Server Admin window that shows a list of the users (and groups if you click the appropriate button). My question is, why does it show me _krb_anonymous, _krb_changepw, and a total of 81 other items? I understand more or less what they are (in a very general sense), but why are they shown as users? More importantly, do they have to be listed there? Technically I'm probably the only one that's going to be the administrator, and I'll know not to add them or modify them, but I don't want anything related to those items appearing in a directory search in Address Book when I get it set up (as they are showing up now; for instance, one user I created is Sandy, and I have it set to include directory contacts in searches, so on a client machine that is correctly communicating w/ the server (add a user, it appears in a minute on another client machine, and vice versa) if I go to search for that name as soon as I type "s" Sandy, the actual user shows up, but so do five or six other things, all of which are items from the aforementioned list in Server Admin (pretty much anything that has an "s" in it, which of course makes sense)—and that's what I don't want, I don't want the users to search for someone, see something like _krb_anonymous pop up, then think something is screwed up and call me and demand I come fix their computer!).
Any thoughts, suggestions, and such are more than welcome and much appreciated!
Thank you to all...

See the following:
Folders You Can Move to Your new Mac
From the Home folder copy the contents of Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
For FireFox:
/Home/Library/Applications Support/FireFox
/Home/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
Credit goes Macjack for this information.

How do I create a group calendar in iCal Server 3?

Hello everyone,
I have set up a Mac Mini server to address the calendaring needs of my company. I have also turned on the iCal service using the Server app in the Lion OS. While the shared calendaring functions for individual users of iCal are great, my company is in need of general office calendar for postings of things like vacation times, company holidays, special conferences, etc. Is there a way to configure the Mac Mini server to allow the setup of such a calendar?
Maximus. Prime

Okay, with everyone's help, I believe I have found a resolution to this issue. I am very grateful to everyone who has contributed this discussion. Your help has been invaluable.
1. The first thing I did was to ensure that the iCal and Wiki servers were both running.
2. Next, I created a user whose sole purpose was to create wikis on the server. (In retrospect, I probably didn't have to do this, as any administrative account, which is what I have, can also make wikis).
3. I then created a wiki. To do this open up your Web browser and enter in the name of your server followed by "/wiki" (no quotes). An example of this is servername.local/wiki. (If you are unsure as to whether or not DNS on your local network is working, you can enter the IP address of the server followed by /wiki).
4. Next login into the wiki by clicking on the lock icon in the toolbar. (You can use the account you created earlier or any admin account on the iCal server for login).
5. Click the Wikis button.
6. Click the plus sign in the toolbar, then click New Wiki.
7. Enter a name and optional description. It is much better to enter a short name with no spaces. This will matter in a later step.
8. Next you will see the Set Wiki Access dialog box. Here is where you can enter users of the wiki (calendar), and their permissions (i.e. Owner, Read-Write, etc.).
9. When done with the previous step, click create, and you should be taken to the "welcome" page of your wiki.
10. Click the gear icon in the toolbar then select settings.
11. Select Services in the sidebar, put a check into the Calendar box, and select Save.
12. You should now see a link for Calendar underneath your toolbar. Select it, then select Settings to adjust your timezone settings, etc.
13. You can log out of the wiki at this point.
14. Go to one of the users who was given access to the wiki in step 8.
15. Open iCal -- Preferences then select the Accounts tab.
**Now here is where things get "tricky."**
16. It is likely that this user has a functioning account on your iCal server. If you go to the Server Settings tab of the account and check the Server Path, you will see an entry similar to /principals/__uids__/longstringofalphanumericcaharacters/.
17. Replace the long string of alphanumeric characters with "wiki-wikiname" (no quotes). The wikiname is the name you entered in step 7.
18. Close the iCal preferences box, and close iCal.
19. The user may be prompted to re-enter his/her password. Do so, and afterward you should be have access to the wiki-based group calendar.
UH OH...what about the user's normal account?!?!?!
20. Go back into the account preferences tab of iCal and re-add the user's normal iCal account with his/her normal credentials. All of the user's calendar information should return because it is on the server and backed up regularly...right?
This solution appears to be working for me so far. I have verified that users who can only read from the wiki calendar do not have the ability to edit the calendar. Of course, those who can edit the calendar are able to do. These test users are also able to use their normal iCal accounts without any issues.

ICal server not sending events older than 10 days

Have just discovered an issue with our iCal Server that I hope someone can help me resolve. It seems that sometime in the last few days, or past week. the iCal Server (running on a Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8 setup) has stopped sending out any events older than 10 or so days for 6 of the 7 calendar calDAV accounts that we all subscribe too. All future events on each calendar appear to be visible. The situation is consistent across of all of our Desktop's, MacBook Pro's and iPhone's so it is not localized to any single machine. It is also consistent when I subscribed through a third party calnedar application (BusyCal).
I have gone into the ~/Library/CalendarServer/Documents and although I could not access the folders directly, I did copy the folder and its contents to another hard drive where I was able to view what was inside. It appears that all of the individual event .ics files for each account are in their respective subfolders, but they are not being served out to the subscribers.
Any ideas on how to get these older events to become visible again would be very much appreciated. I am not very well versed on this type of thing and am learning on the fly.
Shawn

I'm having this same issue and I'm really ticked off.
When I upgraded today, I received a message saying that because I had so many events in the past that it would take longer to upgrade everything. It said that all my current and future events had been updated, but the past events would be available in 1 hour. Well, it's been a lot of 1 hours since then and nothing. All my events have been deleted from my MacPro, MacBook Pros, and iPhone. I'm holding out hope for them to reappear in the morning.
I know this isn't part of this thread, but I thought I'd throw it out anyway. Why are my subscribed calendars NOT visible online. Apple made an announcement in the past celebrating the ability to view subscribed calendars online when they once could not. Now with a new ADVANCEMENT, we've regressed and I cannot view subscribed calendars online. I hate to break it to Apple, but I use these subscribed calendars in my scheduling and planning, too. I still need to see them online just as I do on my computer and phone. So with all the updating and wonderful features, the lack of this one makes MobileMe online calendars useless to me and others.
One step forward, two steps back.

Multiple "catagories" in ical server

Hi - What would be the best way to implement "categories" with ical server. Since switching to ical we have used separate calendars to implement categories (unlike other calendars that let you assign a category to events in a single calendar) Now that we have ical server, I would like a group to be able to access and edit these multiple calendars.
These calendars do not use user names but things like:"appointment", "office", etc...
How would this be setup most efficiently with ical server?
Thanks

Dear Experts,
please tell me is it ok or i need to change something else?
this example is for only one listener, and i put both SID details in same LISTENER, or i need to change the listener name for another server. it is very confusing...
ADMIN_RESTRICTIONS_LISTENER = on
LISTENER =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
        (ADDRESS =
          (PROTOCOL = IPC)
          (KEY = PM1.WORLD)
        (ADDRESS=
          (PROTOCOL = IPC)
          (KEY = PM1)
        (ADDRESS =
          (COMMUNITY = SAP.WORLD)
          (PROTOCOL = TCP)
          (HOST = 10.11.230.12)
          (PORT = 1527))
LISTENER =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
        (ADDRESS =
          (PROTOCOL = IPC)
          (KEY =PE2.WORLD)
        (ADDRESS=
          (PROTOCOL = IPC)
          (KEY = PE2)
        (ADDRESS =
          (COMMUNITY = SAP.WORLD)
          (PROTOCOL = TCP)
          (HOST = 10.11.230.12)
          (PORT = 1528))
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
    (SID_DESC =
      (SID_NAME = PM1)
      (ORACLE_HOME = /oracle/PM1/102_64)
STARTUP_WAIT_TIME_LISTENER = 0
CONNECT_TIMEOUT_LISTENER = 10
TRACE_LEVEL_LISTENER = ON
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
    (SID_DESC =
      (SID_NAME = PE2)
      (ORACLE_HOME = /oracle/PE2/102_64)
Rishi

ICal client with iCal server. Bug with delegation of calendars with plenty

Hi,
I have a working setup with an iCal server on OSX 10.5.2 that is also an OD master. I have several users with calendars hosted on the server. Only Mac clients so far. Everything seems to work when managing your own calendars. The problem I see is when I delegate my calendar to another user. None or just a few of the entries show up in the other users view of my calendar.
I experimented a little and found out that it probably has to do with the number of items in the calendar. I have a calendar that contains several years of historic entries and when I start to delete entries everything eventually start to work. My calendar shows up OK in the other users view.
I am not completely sure if it is the number of items in the calendar or if it is some specific entry that cause the problem but I can recreate the problem over and over again if I import the exported calendar, delegate and refresh as the other user.
If I start to edit away entries in the exported iCal file I finally get a working setup.
If somebody at Apple is interested I can provide the exported iCal file and it should be quite easy to recreate the bug.

Hi,
I have a working setup with an iCal server on OSX 10.5.2 that is also an OD master. I have several users with calendars hosted on the server. Only Mac clients so far. Everything seems to work when managing your own calendars. The problem I see is when I delegate my calendar to another user. None or just a few of the entries show up in the other users view of my calendar.
I experimented a little and found out that it probably has to do with the number of items in the calendar. I have a calendar that contains several years of historic entries and when I start to delete entries everything eventually start to work. My calendar shows up OK in the other users view.
I am not completely sure if it is the number of items in the calendar or if it is some specific entry that cause the problem but I can recreate the problem over and over again if I import the exported calendar, delegate and refresh as the other user.
If I start to edit away entries in the exported iCal file I finally get a working setup.
If somebody at Apple is interested I can provide the exported iCal file and it should be quite easy to recreate the bug.

ICal server setup.

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