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It is possible (on a small scale anyway) to share a group Lightning calendar on a windows SMB or CIFS mapped drive instead of implementing a proper DAV type service. Be advised, this is an egregious kludge and I'm sure a race condition between two users writing to the same .ics file could easily occur in practice as this is not officially supported functionality and there doesn't appear to be any locking mechanism implemented in Lightning -- wouldn't trust filesystem locks either.
As of Lightning ver 1.0b7, a user can create a new calendar, then right-click "export" it into an .ics file. The ics file can moved to a network share. Any user who can read the file can then "File/Open/Calendar File" to load it into Lightning. If the user has write access, they can update and add events to the calendar. You can set calendar properties to refresh once a minute, or manually on demand, to propagate changes.
This obviously won't scale well, say, beyond a few users in the same room (shout "hey, I'm updating the calendar") making infrequent updates, but it's stupid simple to set up if you can tolerate a clobbered event once in a while.
The previous post suggests adding application level locking (maybe a .lck file?), which might be reliable enough to serve a small office??
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