Share an iCal JUST with the family on MobileMe

Jul 02, '10 08:00:00AM

Contributed by: er3l

Your family is signed up with MobileMe using the Family Pack and wants to share iCal calendars with each other but not the whole world. If you sync your calendars in the prefpane then they are also available to anyone who knows your username and can guess the calendar name. It's not a huge security leak but just the same, you can publish the calendar into your iDisk's Shared folder and it will be accessible to only the other Family Pack accounts (or those who know the login password) due to the way the iDisk Shared folder works -- analogous to the Shared folder within Mac OS X's Users folder, shared among the accounts but not any further.

This procedure comes from trying to find a way to use MobileMe to somewhat securely publish a calendar and there may be more security levels available than are mentioned here.

When the other members of your FamilyPack subscribe they enter the URL as it's displayed but when asked for a username and password they enter their own so there is no need to reveal anyone else's password.

[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. Apple has recently made changes to MobileMe which may or may not affect this hint.]

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