Publishing iCal calendar to MobileMe

I would like to share my iCal calendar with my wife only and no one else. If I publish my calendar to MobileMe, does it go to the Public portion of MobileMe or does it go to my private portion where I can password protect it to limit access?

Ed,
According to; Publishing a password-protected iCal calendar to iDisk:
"Using the MobileMe option in iCal to publish a calendar does not require a name and password for users to access your calendar. However, you can also publish private calendars to your iDisk. These calendars require you to type your iDisk name and password and use WebDav authentication."
"Tip: Keep in mind that the name and password used to subscribe to this calendar is your MobileMe account and password. Do not give out this account and password to other users unless you intend to give the user access to your entire MobileMe account."
;~)

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Now enter the 'Login' name and 'Password' for an account that has access to the shared directory as you've set it up using the WebDAV instructions.
Select the other options you want to enable in the dialog box and then click on 'Publish'. Now the calendar is published and available for others to subscribe to.
Now to subscribe to the calendar, just select 'Subscribe' under the 'Calendar' menu in iCal and enter the URL for the calendar. Using the example from above you would enter 'webcal://www.example.com/calendars/StudioWork.ics' for a calendar that was named 'StudioWork'.
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I have MobileMe, using to sync my iMac, MacBook and iPhone. If I didn't want to publish certain of my calendar groups i could just eliminate the on my mac calendars. But I want to publish!!!! You don't seem to be able to publish any calendars other than the "on my mac" ones. Seems kind of silly that you can't publish to MobileMe from MobileMe. Work around is to create a calendar on my mac and then export to the mobile me calendar to desktop and then drag and drop to the new "on my mac" calendar to publish but then you have to go though this process every time changes are made. Surely I am missing something.
Ralph

Ralph,
Publishing has taken on a new meaning in Apple terminology. It seems that your definition of "Publish," and Apple's definition of "Sharing" may be very similar.
Take a look at these two articles for some insight:
1. iCal 4.0 Help: Sharing a MobileMe calendar.
2. MobileMe Help: Share a calendar with others.

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I checked the iCal setup/preferences and there didn't seem to be much to doublecheck.
The help file was equally unhelpful (make sure you're connected to the Internet -- thanks!).
Checking the MobileMe preferences (one of the suggestions) was also unenlightening.
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snapel,
Looks up-to-date to me. It displays "Published: Mon, May 3, 2010 | US/Pacific"
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;~)

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My wife has been publishing her business iCal calendar as a viewable webpage for many years. This feature is no longer working.
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The problem with Google Calendars is that you can't embed them inside your own web page like you can with iCal, unless someone knows something about Google calendars that I don't.
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Sometimes loading is slow, and some of my site visitors claim it doesn't load at all, but I don't know what can be done about that.
You also have to keep in mind that Apple doesn't contribute to Apple Discussions (ever!), and who knows whether they read any of this. It's just you and I helping each other. Not ideal, but I've received some great advice this way.
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Greetings,
I'm afraid I am not a Blackberry user myself so I can't answer (although perhaps someone else in this forum is a RIM user and will have some additional insight for you).
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Blackberry discussion forum: http://supportforums.blackberry.com/
Blackberry support: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/
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I published two iCal calendars from my Mac at home, but when I try to pull it up from my PC at work using the url format "http://ical.mac.com/username/calendar" I get "We're sorry but we cannot find the iCal you've requested. It's possible that it has been deleted or renamed."
I'm sure that I'm using the right calendar and username -- checked the spelling a dozen times.
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Seems funny,
Have you checked in ical the the page is being published, should be a little icon to the right of the calendar...
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So I've moved on from this focus, as Google Calendar and iCal have opened up their software further.

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Currently I have managed to publish the calendars which are viewable via a browser which appear as a list of code rather than as a calendar.
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Hello Julian,
Thanks for this. Excellent solution and pretty straight forward to set up. Wish I'd had this years ago.
Cheers again
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Publish iCal calendar

I'm an iMac and MobileMe user, and I publish my calendar easily with MobileMe, and my girlfriend subscribes to it on her MacBook.
She wants to publish her calendar, but she doesn't use MobileMe. How do we go about it? I have my own domain registered and I use iWeb/MobileMe to upload files to it, if that's any use...

You will have problems with getting another user's calendar published on MobileMe regardless of the domain name you are using unless they have an account as well - which defeats the purpose of your original question.
I think you have two options:
1. Give your girlfriend your MobileMe credentials so that her calendar can be published there
2. Use another caldav service like icalx
Ironically, the second option is the more secure (for both of you) since you have the option of applying a password to the published calendar. Unless you go through some hoops which are explained in this article: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20081016064525441

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