Offhand, I'd say that what you want is quite easy to do and could link Linux and Windows PCs via the PDAs as well. Avoiding categories makes things MUCH simpler every way and every day. I just have "hotsync" set to recognize different PDAs, and multiple PCs (and multiple OS's) was just a matter of setup options.. that I no longer use for multiple PCs with separate calendars on same PDAs. I used that setup about a year with daily or more syncs, and still use most of that same setup. I remember most and have some notes, however. Since the calendars are to be the same on both PCs, your setup should only require recognizing two PDAs to sync on each computer. This is *very* easy using Chapura's PocketMirror under multiple flavors of Windoze and OuchLook, and may be easy in other conduit managers. First try the simple case of a "windows lookalike" that has a linkable OutLook-like environment. I think the KDE desktop has all this stuff. Go into your conduit manager on each PC and see whether you can add just another PDA profile. That's it for what you seek to do. Initially just have handhelds overwrite the PCs so PCs are "primed", then move to 2-way sync when all seems OK. You may go nuts being sure all four versions of calendars and notes (etc) are sufficiently sync'd, but the PDAs will do a very good job for their part of it. Once you get conduits working, then the rest will be defined well enough. Chuck > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of > rpgoldman at real-time.com > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 3:12 PM > To: cncole at earthlink.net; TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: RE: [TCLUG] Palms and shared calendars > > > >>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Cole <cncole at earthlink.net> writes: > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > >> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Chris Schumann > >> > >> First, there's no way to do that on the PDAs. Each PDA has exactly one > >> calendar, so unless you do some encoding by color or tag, that's a show > >> stopper. > > Chuck> Not quite true as stated as far as *function* goes. I've > Chuck> had like 5 calendars on my two Palm-type PDAs under Windoze > Chuck> with separate stuff coming from 2 PCs and ad hoc > Chuck> cross-syncing I defined on the PDA "conduit manager" in > Chuck> each PC. Needed to keep business and personal separate on > Chuck> separate PCs, and had social vs "others" on the personal > Chuck> side. The Palm "All" view showed all and all categories, > Chuck> but maintenance of the calendars was a real pain and setup > Chuck> of PocketMirror (the conduit def/control link) wasn't real > Chuck> simple... Chapura (PocketMirror people) helped do it. > Chuck> Looked like "categories" on the Palm, but each PC had its > Chuck> own hierarchy and "business" showed as a category on the > Chuck> personal PC's calendar. No "personal stuff" ever showed on > Chuck> the business PC, but all was on the PDAs. Looks like the > Chuck> right tools are present on the Linux side, but I haven't > Chuck> tried them yet. > > Sounds like I wasn't clear enough. I was thinking of something like > this: > > 1. Two or more users with linux desktop PIMs, possibly Evolution or > KDEPIM. > > 2. A single shared calendar, possibly up on a web site (preferably > one that I can host, but something like Yahoo! Calendar would be > acceptable), that is able to synch with the desktop PIMs. The > stuff here would be a shared subset of the stuff that's held in > the personal PIMs in #1. > > 3. As a constraint on the choice of PIM for #1, it should be a PIM > that's able to synchronize with a pilot. > > I would have thought that KDEPIM or Evolution would do the job with > some unknown piece in #2, but this seems harder than I thought.... > > cheers, > R _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list