[sync] Syncing shared folders

Michael J Rubinsky mrubinsk at horde.org
Sat Sep 16 13:51:06 UTC 2017


Quoting Ralph Sikau <r.sikau at parabol-pictures.de>:

> Michael J Rubinsky schrieb:
>>
>> Quoting Ralph Sikau <r.sikau at parabol-pictures.de>:
>>
>>> Michael J Rubinsky schrieb:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Ralph Sikau <r.sikau at parabol-pictures.de>[1]:
>>>>
>>>>> A calendar or an addressbook which is         shared with another user,
>>>>> cannot be synced by this user with         Activesync. Is that normal
>>>>> or are we doing anything wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Synchronization requires that the user synchronizing have edit
>>>> permissions on the source. This is due to the fact that ActiveSync
>>>> does not provide any permissions checking, it assumes the user
>>>> owns the resources being synchronized.
>>>
>>> Even with read and write permissions ActiveSync does not synchronise
>>> the shared folders to Android on the client side. After many tests     that
>>> is obvious. The alternative is to sync these folders with
>>> caldav/carddav.
>>
>> You must enable "support separate address books" in the sync  
>> preferences for Turba, and the Android sync client must support it  
>> (most current clients do).
> Nope. That does not help either. Shared folders are not shown in the  
> selection for being synchronized, only your own folders - both in  
> turba and kronolith. Wether or not "support separate address books"  
> is enabled does not change anything. Our Android sync client is the  
> app Nine which is capable to handle separate folders.


This is exactly the same setup I use, and it is working fine.

Just checked the code, and it actually requires DELETE permissions, not EDIT.



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