doug
Wed Feb 11 07:34:56 CST 2004
Use local accounts instead of domain accounts. Before
doing this though, read up on the Microsoft licensing for
this. Each authenticated user will need a CAL.
Alternatively, write some ASP that stores the usernames
and passwords in a SQL database...
doug
>-----Original Message-----
>To "login" sucessfully requires that the external client
enter some kind of
>username/password that is acceptable to the server. The
server needs to have
>access to a master list of usernames/passwords that it
can reference to see
>whether to allow the login or not.
>
>So, where are you storing the usernames/passwords? In
Windows user accounts
>database? in an SQL database? If it's a Windows
username/password, then IIS
>can do this. Just disable "Allow Anonymous Access" in
the website properties
>via the IIS Manager (website/folder/page properties ->
security tab -> edit
>anonymous access -> uncheck "Allow anonymous access").
This can be set on a
>website, individual folder or individual file level.
>
>You then set the NTFS permissions on the
website/folder/file in question.
>Which ever Windows users/groups that should be allowed
to access the pages
>should be given RX permissions.
>
>Cheers
>Ken
>
>"Andy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:1401563D-A294-48CD-8DCF-
5752504F14F2@microsoft.com...
>: I am interesting in creating an web server that
clients can login from the
>internet. These external web users would not be users
on the internal
>company LAN. Does IIS have the ability to require a web
user to enter a
>username and password to access particular pages on a
companies external
>website? If not, what does?
>:
>: Thanks for any help.
>:
>: Andy
>
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