IPhones - can they connect remotely to iCal server?

Question

Can I take an iPhone and have it access a server based iCal server? If so how?
Also, if users have remote laptops, OS X Leopard, that are never brought into the office, how can they be set up to access and use the iCal server?
Thanks in advance - Lewis

Answer 1

correct. there's no need to port forward if clients connect via vpn.
you'd configure the remote clients just the same as you would for clients on your LAN, because they'd essentially be on your network over the vpn tunnel anyway. do you mean how would you configure these machines remotely? i'd start by working out a test config, writing up a how-to for your remote users to follow and use screen sharing/ARD if they can't get it to work. test this yourself before rolling out to clients.
that long string in the calendar URL is the user's generated UID in the open directory node. you can use that, which is harder to type, or something like http://calendar.example.com:8008/principals/users/shortname/calendar/
both should work.
for group calendars, you'd use: http://calendar.example.com:8008/principals/groups/name/calendar/