Setting up iCal on the Mac OS X Server - please help if you can!

Trying to set up an iCal on our Mac OSX Server for just four of us at my small business. I spent all of yesterday trying to figure this out (i'm fairly novice), and I've had no luck. This is what I have done so far:
I created an open directory on our server, went into server admin -> services and checked iCal, open directory, and DNS (is this right?)
Then I created a group in workgroup manager and added the clients to the group.
I opened iCal and went to add an account. If i didn't put anything in the server details section it would just say that I don't have any configured principals - what does this mean??
Typed in the user information and copied a million different combinations of this in the account url spot:
http://my.server.com:8008/principals/groups/groupshortname/. typing things like
http://(my ip address here):8008/principals/groups/groupshortname/.
http://(what i think is my server address here):8008/principals/groups/groupshortname/ical.
and then it says server refused, or address could not be found, etc.
i do not know what to do. please help.
thanks,
ryan

Hello ryankarolak, and Welcome to the AppleBoards,
Setting up iCal Server is a little complicated in that you need to do several things in the right order. If you don't have DNS from another source you'll need good DNS set-up for many of the OS X Server services to function correctly. But I'm a little unsure of what your next move is since you didn't give any details about your server set-up or your office network lay-out.
You should be aware that there is an entire group dedicated to iCal Server here: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1234
This other board is really the best place to search and find previous threads and post questions with the best chance of getting knowledgeable eyes on them. This forum is really for Xserve specific questions and isn't the best place to get OS X Server services questions answered - people will help out if they can but dedicated groups exist for some of the more complicated issues.
Good luck,
=Tod

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