sharing a calendar profile between two computers

[Brian McKee]

On Monday 23 October 2006 18:26, H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am planning to use lightnight (or sunbird). But I would need to keep
> the appointments in sync between my home PC and lab computers. In my
> home, I use Linux (Ubuntu) and in my university, we have Windows as well
> as Linux computers.
>
> I was wondering, how do I keep my appointments in sync between the two
> locations? Can it be as simple as copying the relevant files from my
> profile to a usb stick? At the end of the day, I can take that data to
> my home and modify/edit it and then take the new data to university the
> next day. Is this is too simplistic and is there are better method to
> achieve this objective?

It might be fun to try - but I wouldn't expect this to be easy.  The problem 
with the USB stick idea is that it's not really 'syncing', you're just 
copying.  You would have to be very careful to never make an edit after you 
copy the files to the USB stick on either end, or it'll disappear.  And if 
you aren't using the exact same software on both ends it's not likely going 
to work either.  Cross platform versions of the same software may not even 
use the same file format and/or locations.  You would have to be pretty 
meticulous (i.e. it might be more trouble than it's worth)
I've tried a couple of times to keep my home linux box in sync with my Mac at 
work via a Palm, and I've run into similar problems.  Sooner or later you 
edit an appointment on both ends at the same time, and something gets 
whacked.  To boot, because they don't quite interpret the fields the same way 
the data is never quite the same on both ends anyway.

In my case I decided that I'd keep one system set up to sync to the Palm and 
don't store calendar info on the other.  If I need the info I can always 
access the Palm whereever I am anyway.

I'm not current on Sunbird, but many clients understand at least most of the 
iCal standard, including Google calendars.  With Google as a 'go between' it 
might work.  Heck, depending on your needs just using the Google calendar via 
a browser might be all you need - especially if the number of computers you 
need to access it on grows...

Just as a PS, what's 'nightlight' ?  Even a quite Google didn't show me 
anything that looked apropos.

HTH
Brian

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