Topic: Calendar server

[Eric]

A service compatible with the calendar from M$ outlook so we dont need
exchange anymore

[Nick Texidor]

Not sure if it's what you are after or not, but I've just installed phpgroupware from www.phpgroupware.org.

It features, amongst other things, calendar, address book, todo list, notes, Project Management, Resource Booking, headlines etc etc.  Most sets of data can be shared between groups of users with various levels of access.

I've only been playing with it for a few days, so I don't know the level of import/export features available, except that I know the address book allows the importing of contacts from Outlook/Netscape etc.

Hope it helps!  Personlally, I think phpgroupware is exellent!

N

[Jeff Martin]

This was posted by Sasha Malic but I've never tried it.

Outlook shared calendars

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From: Sasha Malic
Subject: Outlook shared calendars
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 06:36:04 -0700

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I have found the following article that describes setting up a form of
shared calendaring for Outlook users on a LAN.

I did the set-up as described to an e-smith ibay called ifb with rw sharing
for everyone. Outlook seems to create and read back the .vfb files that are
created.

Those interested give it a test drive and some feedback.

This could be a good solution for Outlook users, in conjunction with the
messageware add-on for LDAP as described by Jeff Martin in
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=10117.msg38191#msg38191


Regards
Sasha Malic


Sharing Calendars In Outlook
By Woody Leonhard and Peter Deegan, Woody's Office Watch
http://www.mcc.com.au/wow/index.htm
<<...>>
Learn how to share calendar data without special software.
A small company wants to share calendars with Outlook but doesn't want to
invest in Exchange Server and either can't get or doesn't want to use
Schedule+. You can use Internet Free/Busy (IFB) to at least allow all users
to share meetings, personal time, or whatever. The very term Internet
suggests (and many books seem to agree!) that this requires you to use FTP
in which case you at least have to set up and maintain an FTP server. On the
other hand, if you have an Intranet setup (internal TCP/IP network), you can
share calendar information without the need for any special software beyond
the network itself.

Getting Started
<<...>>
To begin, each person will need a distinct email name - that is the part of
the email address before the @ sign.
Next, decide where the IFB files will reside. For example, suppose you pick
the folder \ifb in the C: drive of the machine whose name is FileServer.

Let's look at an example. Assume your email address is user17@whoever.com.
Open the Outlook dialog Tools | Options | Preferences | Calendar Options |
Free/Busy Options. Check the box labeled "Publish my free/busy information".
For the "Publish at this URL" field, enter

file://FileServer/c/ifb/user17.vfb
Each user fills in their own email name in place of "user17". In the box
"Search at this URL", enter
file://FileServer/c/ifb/%NAME%.vfb
(Note: Each user will fill in precisely the same thing. %NAME% is exactly
what you enter, not some kind of abbreviation. It tells Outlook when
searching for another user's IFB information to look for a file with %NAME%
replaced by the user's email name.)

If all the users on a small network set up their Outlook this way, every
time you try to set up a meeting (using File | New | Meeting Request or
starting an Appointment and clicking Invite Attendees) you enter each
meeting attendee. Outlook will then go out to \FileServer\c\ifb and
retrieve their Free/Busy information and display it on the invitee form.

[Ronald Tanis]

maybe you can try http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net,
it is a nice simple calendar that works with mysql

[loopz]

you could try intraline I have not tried it but that is a nice groupware solution

[paulham]

Nick,

Can you tell me how you set it up.  Was it on an e-smith box
if so in an ibay
what configuration did you need to do?

Paul

[macca]

anyone evr had any succes with this?

[Jim Goode]

I created a new "ifb" ibay, stopped/started the smb service, and modified the MS Outlook Calendar option as described, but MS Outlook is not creating the the file as expected.

I used "file:\s01\ifb\jgoode.vfb" as the Publish at this URL value. Has anyone else tried this feature? Did you get it to work?

Thanks,
Jim