intranet guidence

[dyers78]

I have been assigned to create an intranet here at work. Something where people can log in with a password and access private documents.

Any one ever set something like this up? I was thinking to start I would add a log in area... with user name ans password... then I'm stuck.

Is this something a programmer should be involved in or perhaps somehting I can call my ISP about, something they would provide. I dunno.

Looking for thoughts

[Jackimalyn]

is this something that would go on a website? We have a login area of our website and out ISP took care of most of it remotely

[dyers78]

the person would gain access to the intranet form our main site and oncvalidated would be taken to the "protected area" Once there it is pretty simple. I am most confused on how the passwords and usernames get stored and managed and how to set the form up. Is there a script that would run this similar to a form? I am a bit out of my comfort zone on this one.

[chris_bcn]

you will need a programmer to set up a database and the login script - ASP.NET or PHP would be the most likely languages. A lot of it depends on how secure it needs to be

I'm a bit confused by Jackimalyn's response tbh. Why wouldn't a log in form go on a website - what do you mean your ISP took care of it - took care of what?

[Jackimalyn]

Dont worry... I was too when I became the webmaster of this site. Ask your ISP. They went through everything with me and set it all up using ASP and C# which I don't even really know C# but its not necessary because our ISP takes care of all that.

As for managing passwords and such, there's an administrator login where I can add names and passwords and even log when people log into our site.

[Jackimalyn]

they took care of the programming

[dyers78]

so can people choose there own user names and passwords or do you have to provide them... if someone's name is joe smith you would provide them a username joe.smith and manually log it in the database? I will call my isp but i wanted to see what other people have done first.

[Jackimalyn]

Im sure you can have them pick their own, or be able to change their own password. I didnt wanna deal with the maintenence of that so I create their username and password. I use their email as their login.

[PersonasBinar]

if it for a corporation you can maybe use the email access data.... if they belong to certain groups within the email structure then they get certain access in your intranet project. We recently did this through FileMaker authenticating against the domain controller. this way people log in using the same as their email and you only need to redirect them based on access levels once validated against the domain controller. Sales, Managers, Pions, production etc....

[nyc_skater]

It depends on what you need tp put in the intranet.

If for instance you just want a private area of a site, a lot of isp's will have an interface where you can set a permission on a certain folder so it is username/password protected. So all your intranet files are behind that.

It sounds like you want more though, are you looking for a forum for interaction where users sign up and log in and out? If so you'll need to know what backend server side stuff you have if any and maybe find a premade one to configure like this one (Vbulletin) or a good free one is PHPBB

[dyers78]

this is for business purposes only. It will be a protected are for board members to access private files and documents. Personally I think it is a waste of time as our board doesn't even use our site. They want a private area to hosr forms and post finacial documents and such. It woyuld be for about 50 people. NOthing too complicated just a member login area. SOunds like I just need to contact my isp to see what they can offer.