Our SharePoint Portal Server 2003 website can be access through the internet ( I go to this link, SharePoint will open a username/password popup box. If I put in simply my username and password, it won't let me in. If I put in my server domain and username (domain\user) with my password, it will let me in fine. The problem with this is 90% of the users don't know our internal Microsoft Domain, and we don't want to make them sign in this way. Any thoughts?
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domain url's and authentication
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Thomas2000
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Hello,
When accessing a portal from the Internet you will have to provide the domain\username since users in sharepoint are added with a domain accounts. This information is not "registered" anywhere when the users are coming from the Internet side, so they system would not know that it is a valid user (useraccount) that is trying to access the system.
It is the same way when you logon to your LAN you always logon to your domain (even though you do not have to manually provide that info since the computer already is a member of a domain).
We are using Active Directory and it is setup so users can logon using their "e-mail address" so there might be a way for you to set that up aswell if you are running A.D becuase most users do know their email address
Not sure if the above actually helps you but that is how we are running one of our environments.
Regards,
Thomas
When accessing a portal from the Internet you will have to provide the domain\username since users in sharepoint are added with a domain accounts. This information is not "registered" anywhere when the users are coming from the Internet side, so they system would not know that it is a valid user (useraccount) that is trying to access the system.
It is the same way when you logon to your LAN you always logon to your domain (even though you do not have to manually provide that info since the computer already is a member of a domain).
We are using Active Directory and it is setup so users can logon using their "e-mail address" so there might be a way for you to set that up aswell if you are running A.D becuase most users do know their email address
Not sure if the above actually helps you but that is how we are running one of our environments.
Regards,
Thomas
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