Manage outside access to our web pages

[Guest Jordan]

We are using W2003 to host a website and an FTP site. We have read access

for everyone. We want to start putting things up on our web server for

customers and vendors like vendor and customer literature, presentations,

and so on.

 

We want to do the following:

 

1. Give customers, reps, and vendors usernames and passwords.

2. Manage where those accounts can go.

3. Allow our internal Sales and Engineers to manage who has the access to

what.

4. Have it be so easy that a sales person can run it.

5. Have it be something good enough that the engineers don't mess it up

thinking they can improve it.

6. Preferably have somthing that straight forward access to what the person

can access.

 

There are some software vendors out there like Mentor Graphics, Ansys,

Xilinx, and so on where they give you an account and when you log in there

is a page with links to all the products and information that you are

allowed to download. We would like something like that. Is there a package

out there for Windows 2003 server that can do this?

[Guest Anthony [MVP]]

Re: Manage outside access to our web pages

 

Jordan,

1) Active Directory accounts

2) NTFS permissions

3) Group memberships

4) The Dot Net Factory

5) Its standard

6) IIS

Its all standard in W2K3. You can use SharePoint to create the portal if you

prefer. SSL will provide security.

I would take a look at SharePoint,

Anthony

http://www.airdesk.co.uk

 

 

"Jordan" <none@here.com> wrote in message

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> We are using W2003 to host a website and an FTP site. We have read access

> for everyone. We want to start putting things up on our web server for

> customers and vendors like vendor and customer literature, presentations,

> and so on.

>

> We want to do the following:

>

> 1. Give customers, reps, and vendors usernames and passwords.

> 2. Manage where those accounts can go.

> 3. Allow our internal Sales and Engineers to manage who has the access to

> what.

> 4. Have it be so easy that a sales person can run it.

> 5. Have it be something good enough that the engineers don't mess it up

> thinking they can improve it.

> 6. Preferably have somthing that straight forward access to what the

> person can access.

>

> There are some software vendors out there like Mentor Graphics, Ansys,

> Xilinx, and so on where they give you an account and when you log in there

> is a page with links to all the products and information that you are

> allowed to download. We would like something like that. Is there a

> package out there for Windows 2003 server that can do this?

>

>

[Guest Jordan]

Re: Manage outside access to our web pages

 

Thanks,

 

Although I could just create another separate domain and can easily manage

it myself, AD way is a little more complicated and much more expensive that

what I had in mind. Accounts in IIS/Windows need to be licensed per user if

using AD to manage security and logons.

 

When I went to the Visual Studio 2005 launch they demoed how to develop an

app that did something similar to what I desire. It used V.S. and a SQL

Express engine to house information like logons and the site wizard

developed a pretty basic site that allowed users to request accounts via a

web page and the admin of the site to approve the account and the areas. I

was told something like this did not require more licenses beyond the

IUSR_ComputerName and IWAM_Computername accounts.

 

 

"Anthony [MVP]" <anthony@no-reply.com> wrote in message

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> Jordan,

> 1) Active Directory accounts

> 2) NTFS permissions

> 3) Group memberships

> 4) The Dot Net Factory

> 5) Its standard

> 6) IIS

> Its all standard in W2K3. You can use SharePoint to create the portal if

> you prefer. SSL will provide security.

> I would take a look at SharePoint,

> Anthony

> http://www.airdesk.co.uk

>

>

> "Jordan" <none@here.com> wrote in message

> news:%23%23rCeMxyIHA.2184@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> We are using W2003 to host a website and an FTP site. We have read

>> access for everyone. We want to start putting things up on our web

>> server for customers and vendors like vendor and customer literature,

>> presentations, and so on.

>>

>> We want to do the following:

>>

>> 1. Give customers, reps, and vendors usernames and passwords.

>> 2. Manage where those accounts can go.

>> 3. Allow our internal Sales and Engineers to manage who has the access to

>> what.

>> 4. Have it be so easy that a sales person can run it.

>> 5. Have it be something good enough that the engineers don't mess it up

>> thinking they can improve it.

>> 6. Preferably have somthing that straight forward access to what the

>> person can access.

>>

>> There are some software vendors out there like Mentor Graphics, Ansys,

>> Xilinx, and so on where they give you an account and when you log in

>> there is a page with links to all the products and information that you

>> are allowed to download. We would like something like that. Is there a

>> package out there for Windows 2003 server that can do this?

>>

>>

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