Re: SharePoint 3.0 - making it accessible to user 'from the outside'

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Making sharepoint accessible externally is not all that difficult. Involes a
bit of knowledge with IIS and SSL tunneling. All that is really necessary is
to configure an SSL port (you can't use 443 or 444). You may need to setup
NAT in the WSS 3.0 Central Administration. You also have to address using a
public signed SSL key.

"Cary W. Shultz" <cshultz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uf6fvSG2IHA.5048@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Good morning!

Simple question actually: making sharepoint 3.0 accessible to the user
base when the user base is not connected to the network (say, they are at
home or on vacation or whatnot). How?

I ask becuase my colleague tells me that this is very tricky. To me, it
seems like we simply have a dedicated, static Public IP Addres available.
We create an A record called 'sharepoint' (or whatever...), configure the
SonicWall to forward traffic to this IP Address to the server in question
(member File Server) and that is it.

My colleague tells me that SharePoint is not really all that 'friendly'
when it comes to accessing it from the outside world. I trust what he
says.

Thanks,

Cary



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