Hello all!
I've been running a DAViCal server for my family members for several
years, and they've all come to really like it! Unfortunately, a family
member's Mac recently stopped being able to connect to our shared
calendar account. She uses the built-in "Calendars" client on her Mac,
and the client gave a not-so-helpful error about failing to connect to
the server (unfortunately I didn't take a screenshot).
Reentering the password to the account did not help, so I tried to
delete the account from the Mac's system settings and then recreate it,
but recreating the account did not work either.
Mac OS High Sierra asks for both a server address and a server path,
which I assume is just splitting the full account URL into two parts.
For reference, on my family's iPhones, I set the account URL to
http://192.168.1.210/davical/caldav.php/[DAVICAL USER NAME] and that
always works fine. But on the Mac, I repeatedly got an "unable to verify
account name or password" error, despite whatever combination of options
I tried. It's been a long time, but I don't remember having much
difficulty when I initially connected this Mac to our server.
All of our other devices and the server itself seem to be working fine,
so I'm curious whether a recent update might have broken CalDAV on Macs
(she did perform a Mac system update recently, though I didn't hear
whether the calendars stopped working immediately after the update).
Has anyone else had problems with High Sierra, or have an idea what
might be the problem? Any help that I could receive would be appreciated.
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Aidan Montare
aidan@aidanmontare.net
https://aidanmontare.net/
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I've been running a DAViCal server for my family members for several
years, and they've all come to really like it! Unfortunately, a family
member's Mac recently stopped being able to connect to our shared
calendar account. She uses the built-in "Calendars" client on her Mac,
and the client gave a not-so-helpful error about failing to connect to
the server (unfortunately I didn't take a screenshot).
Reentering the password to the account did not help, so I tried to
delete the account from the Mac's system settings and then recreate it,
but recreating the account did not work either.
Mac OS High Sierra asks for both a server address and a server path,
which I assume is just splitting the full account URL into two parts.
For reference, on my family's iPhones, I set the account URL to
http://192.168.1.210/davical/caldav.php/[DAVICAL USER NAME] and that
always works fine. But on the Mac, I repeatedly got an "unable to verify
account name or password" error, despite whatever combination of options
I tried. It's been a long time, but I don't remember having much
difficulty when I initially connected this Mac to our server.
All of our other devices and the server itself seem to be working fine,
so I'm curious whether a recent update might have broken CalDAV on Macs
(she did perform a Mac system update recently, though I didn't hear
whether the calendars stopped working immediately after the update).
Has anyone else had problems with High Sierra, or have an idea what
might be the problem? Any help that I could receive would be appreciated.
--
Aidan Montare
aidan@aidanmontare.net
https://aidanmontare.net/
Legitimate emails from Aidan are signed using GPG. See https://aidanmontare.net/contact/ for details.