sharepoint question -external access

[zodiaczz]

I have a client that uses sharepoint in ther environment, it works fine internally but they want to have access to it from external. I don't know anything about sharepoint, anyone have some ideas on what to do, a document perhaps.

I am presuming opening up ports on the firewall perhaps to the sharepoing server and is there anything else to this?

Thanks all

 

[markdmac]

Is it running on SBS?

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[zodiaczz]

nope regular windows 2003
not sure what post you are talking about

 

[jshurst]

If it is the default web site just open port 80 on the router. It is probably using windows authentication so they will need to enter a username and password to get to it. You can also configure it for Anonymous Access, but it is more of a security risk (but doable).

 

[zodiaczz]

yes all standard things like that have been tried, the ports are open etc.. I am thinking it maybe something to do with the certificate since they have moved domain names a couple of times in the past.

 

[Roadki11]

Couple of questions: 1st, what is it doing when you connect to it from outside, page cant be found or what? 2nd, you mention certificates, is it running on https? if thats the case you would need to nat/forward port 443 at the router/firewall not port 80.

RoadKi11