intranet CMS -> how to connect with sever

[gerjanschoemake]

Hello,

I usually only build websites (in ASP). Now someone asked me if I can build an intranet (for a company >100 employees). I sayd yes. Maybe too soon :-)
I thought that it's the same as an CMS at a website, and then host it at the local host of the server. But I don't know how to connect the website from a computer. Is it possible to connect the local host of the server?

Is there more I must know about installing/working with an intranet?

tnx,

[Ubik]

I have a dedicated machine running Windows Server 2000 with IIS and MSsql, and it's on the company LAN, so you can just type the machine name into the address bar of a browser to get to it. Name the machine whatever you want the address to be.

Or, you can just get a host and secure it with a un/pw and just have it 'out there'.

[gerjanschoemake]

Ok, so it's pretty easy... It's the same as IIS on my local machine, but instead of typing http://localhost, I type the computername from the server IIS is installed on?

[gerjanschoemake]

One more question about this topic. Is it possible when you have the intranet hosted extern, that only employees from within the company can make contact with the intranet? So, employees cannot login from home?
TNX!

[chrismartz]

1. You are right about connecting to the computer with iis running by http://computer_name

2. Just dont point your internal computer to have an external ip. You could also look at the ip that's contacting and if it is one of yours, allow it, otherwise block them.