Re: Netscape calendar

[Jay Christner <jaymc@goshen.edu>]

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Geoff Hibble wrote:

> Does Netscape Calendar client integrate with CS&T?
Yep, though there are more features in CS&T that the Netscape Calendar
client doesn't know about.  It also works vice-versa (supposedly).

> Does CS&T run on Linux?

There is a Linux client, but no server.  The server runs on Solaris,
HP/UX, AIX, and WindowsNT, I think.

> Does CS&T run on OpenLDAP?

Yep, it's worked fine in testing.  We are going to roll it out for about
1500 users here within the next couple of months.

-jay

> --Geoff
> 
> Jay Christner wrote:
> 
> > We have.  It's actually not that difficult.  You just need to load the
> > appropriate nscalendar.so.conf and nscalendar.at.conf in the slapd.conf
> > file (don't hold me on those exact nscal*.conf filenames, it should be
> > rather obvious once youve got the Calendar server.)  Make sure those
> > things are loaded up in your OpenLDAP server and then install the Calendar
> > server and point it towards the OpenLDAP server.
> >   If you've already got a running Calendar server and don't want to
> > reinstall then you can just export everything to an LDIF off your existing
> > LDAP server and copy and paste all the nscal* attributes (there can be
> > 15-20 or so of them for each user.)  Don't foget all the resources you've
> > created (if you have any) also, the server itslef puts something like 6
> > entries in that need to be moved over.
> >   The easiest is to install Calendar fresh though.  We actually gave up on
> > Netscape Calendar here.  We're now using CS&T Corporate Time which is
> > where Netscape got (is still getting?) it's product from (notice the CS&T
> > logo on the login screen.)  Updates come out way faster and performance
> > seems to be better than the Netscape product.  Any, that's a little
> > irrelevant for you.
> >   So, in short, it's pretty straightforward.
> > -jay
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Paolo Supino wrote:
> >
> > >    Hi
> > >
> > >   I've seen in the archives a couple of post concerning the integration of
> > > OpenLDAP server and Netscape Calendar server. Being a newbie, that those
> > > posts only confused me more, so is there anyone that successfully
> > > installed Netscape Calendar server and intergrated it with OpenLDAP?
> > > Any help/hints/pointers would be greatly appriciated.
> > >
> > >
> > >       Paolo
> >
> >
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> > Jay Christner
> > Information Technology Services
> > Goshen College
> > Goshen, IN 46526
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Jay Christner
Information Technology Services
Goshen College
Goshen, IN 46526
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