Log onto Intranet page at work from home

[dupas]

Not sure if this is the place to ask this question...

I want to be able to log onto our work intranet page from home. Is this easily done and if so how is it possible?
I have a company webpage and I want to have a page with the following:

- Login to webmail
- Login to intranet

Thanks!

 

[phillid2]

I have not set up webmail but to access the intranet, I opened up a port in the firewall.

 

[supportahm1980]

Intranet means this is usually internal to the network only. Unless you have some sort of VPN connection, term service solution, or a public intranet with username and pw authetication you are not going to get very far.

Webmail is setup by your IT dept. You should ask them these questions.

 

[dupas]

Im all good on the webmail... I already got that going... I just wanted to know how to get the intranet to work from outside the office... how to implement a user logon for the intranet... what port did you open for user access?
Thanks!

 

[Roadki11]

You need to determine a few things first. Is the data the users access sensitive in any manner? Do you enforce strong passwords on the windows user accounts? And finally, are you sure you really want to expose IIS services to the internet, is it worth the risk to your company? I am going on the assumption you are working on a windows server. I would install a certificate authority on the server and issue a certificate for your IIS server and install it so people can connect via SSL and get 128bit encryption. Then in the IIS snapin, for the website your users will access uncheck anonymous authentication and check windows authentication, this will password protect your website and people with domain accounts can access it. Lastly forward port 443 from outside to your webserver. If you have never done this stuff before you may want to setup a test server and practice before you mess with your production server. Or you could just setup a vpn into your network.

Hope this helps,

RoadKi11

 

[dupas]

i could use some help with the VPN connection. I want to set one up but never could get it to work right...

 

[dupas]

We already have SSL for our webmail. I would have to get another SSL for our intranet? I have the intranet on the same server as our webmail...