Calendar "read only" sharing?

[Schooner]

So far as I can see, "shared" calendars via publish-to-MSOO are strictly
read-only to all but author. Can't see the point of publishing online if so.
I have multiple PCs in multiple locations with multiple ISPs. Need single,
unified calendar accessible to all identities/locations/PCs. Is there a way
short of defecting to Google/Airset? (No MSExchange as yet).

Thanks

Schooner

 

[Diane Poremsky]

Do you have total control on an IIS server with webdav enabled that is
exposed to the internet? Publish the calendar using a account created only
for calendar publishing and access it using the same acct from the other
systems.

 

[Schooner]

Ouch. I don't recognize the obscure Finno-Ugric dialect in which you write
("IIS" & "webdav" sound like more lost weekends desperately mucking about
with Outlook, but I have no idea what they are). Groping in the dark as
usual, I'll try to answer: I think I have "total control" in that machines
in question are all Hamachi'd together thus affording cute bypass of local
LANs/Domains/etc, can map drives back & forth and all that. I log into all
machines using the same (administrator-level) identity for filesharing
convenience. Logging into MSOO as Person1 on PC2 seems to download a
read-only version of the calendar "published" by Person1 on PC1. I want, of
course, to SYNC not SEE (absent which Outlook becomes a liability - leaving
you scheduling a meeting which conflicts with your upcoming brain surgery, as
your two lives are embedded in two calendars which won't talk to each other).
Thinking I'm stuck with converting to hosted MSExch (=botch my whole
company, all but I are delighted with popmail) or 3P apps (torturous sync
toys or defect to AirSet) to workaround, this is gonna kill me. So much
productivity destroyed just by buying a computer, it's a technological
tragedy. MSOL needs a simple sync utilty comprehensible to bozos like I who
have jobs outside the IT bubble. (I was hoping that I could resolve the
unsynched email problem by isolating accounts to machines & using VNC to
operate remotely, leaving me with only Cal/Contacts/Tasks as sync problems).

Schooner