[sync] Syncing shared folders

[Michael J Rubinsky]

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>:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
> Well, we did not try that. Because we would not want that a client  
> is able to delete events in the owner's calendar.
> It is only shared for information.

Yup. Unfortunately, ActiveSync doesn't support permissions. It's all  
or nothing.


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