I want to have a Shared Address Book for the users on my installation of OS X Lion Server. Users will keep their own contacts individually but there are certain lists and contacts who need to be shared between users and I can't find any way of getting Lion Server to do this. I know it was a problem in Snow Leopard Server but I hoped it had been fixed.
Any suggestions?
Create a new user on the Server called 'ouraddressbook' or whatever. Exit the Server. Into Address Book on your Admin/Client machine create a new Account. Account type is CardDAV, Username and Password the same as the User you created on the Server… 'ouraddressbook' or whatever, and then enter your Server's address as text or numbers. Click creat and the rest is straight forward. Now give the set up details of that new Account to the others who want to share your 'ouraddressbook' with you.The Clients must have, I think, Mac OS 10.6 or upwards to have an Address Book that with co-operate.
You will see a new group in Address Book.
If you don't already know, do not add accounts to Address Book or iCal on the Server. Everything is Admin and Client Side. In the beginning I was also adding accounts to iCal and Address on the Server. It works fine but it is just one extra thing that could become corrupted. Let the Server 'serve' the Users you create on it.
Hit me if you have problems.
As patrickmoffatt says, the clients must have 10.6 or up, I've just set up the exact same think and the clients with 10.5.8 cannot access the shared address book.
Hi there,
if you want a properly working address book server, use this one.
http://www.addressbookserver.com/
Regards,
Oliver
spaceboyo: That was true wtih 10.6 server as well, so this is not new to Lion, by the way.
IE: Address Book in Mac OS X 10.5.x can't connect to a shared addressbook - not without 3rd-party software.
For which Oliver's suggestion is excellent. I've used in in conjunction with iCal server (in OS X Server), just disable (don't use the addressbookserver.com calendaring and don't point the clients at it).
BUT - if your clients are 10.6 and up, then they should work with the AddressBook serer/service in 10.6 server and 10.7
How can I get Address Book Server to share contacts between users?
