Mattyw
Wed Aug 16 07:00:41 CDT 2006
John/Mike
Thanks very much....most helpful
Regards
Matt.
Mike Eastaugh wrote:
> I also have an external facing WSS site. I just opened up port 443 and mapped
> a DNS name to our public IP (we don't have ISA).
>
> I created a second website in IIS for external access, with basic
> authentication (because it's not a good idea to run authenticated and basic
> authentication on the same IIS site), and extended this site with sharepoint
> services and mapped this website to the existing content database.
>
> Sharepoint generally handles the changes between internal and external
> domain names. I believe there may be instances though where it may not, but
> ISA can be used for address translation.
>
>
>
> "dailey@vinestechnology.net" wrote:
>
> > We certainly have an internet facing installation of WSS version 2.
> > You'll want to have Basic Authentication over an SSL connection. Works
> > great for us. Note that in IIS when you set Basic Authentication you
> > can select the default domain that credentials will be authenticated
> > against. Be sure to check the "only allow connections over SSL" so
> > people aren't accidentally sending password data over clear-text
> >
> > It might be a bit more difficult to convert an existing site,
> > especially if isn't using valid external domain names. If your
> > top-level sites show up in the administration site as
> > "
http://machine-name/" instead of "
http://machine.company.com" you'll
> > have to convert them somehow, or (probably easier) just create new top
> > level sites, get them working, and copy the data and security settings
> > over.
> >
> > -John
> >
> > Mattyw wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I've recently been asked the question whether it would be possible to
> > > make our Windows Sharepoint Site Internet facing.
> > >
> > > Is this possible with the out of the box version?, does anyone know if
> > > there is an extra licensing cost?. I was also wondering how
> > > Authentication would work for our current AD users as I was under the
> > > impression that only Basic Authentication can negotiate a firewall.
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate if anyone has a link to case studies or their own
> > > experiences.
> > >
> > > Thanks and Regars
> > >
> > > Matt.
> >
> >