Remote Access of Domino Databases by External Users

To Whomever Can Help -

My company has several Lotus Notes developers and I want
to ask a question that I am SURE we aren't the first
ones to ask.

We have several databases that we would like numerous
external (outside the company) personnel to use and I am
looking for the following advice: How is the best way
to authenticate those people?

Currently, for each of the external people, we are
adding a person document to our corporate address book.
I would think that there is a better way to do this.
Can we create an 'external use only' second address
book? Do we need to authenticate the users another way?
What options are available to us?

If anyone has any suggestions or needs more detail than
this, either post a follow-up to this message or e-mail
me at cbuege-at-NOSPAMmoreycorp.com removing the 'NOSPAM'
for the proper e-mail address.

Thank you,
Charles Buege
cbuege-at-NOSPAMmoreycorp.com

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There are several ways to do this. I know that some of the redbooks do
mention this too. You might look at the R6 redbook. There is a way to
do the authentication with a subset of the Addressbook. This would be a
separate Notes domain, so you can control the replication via
connection documents. I would only pull document information. You can
actually change the form to reflect only the important fields if you
are concerned about some one reading the outside address book.

There is a secure method of authentication as well. You might check out
the Admin help database on your server under the Help folder.

Hope this helps.
KM

On 2005-08-10 14:20:06 -0500, warriorsolo-at-nospamthegatenetwork.org
(WarriorSolo) said:

> To Whomever Can Help -
> My company has several Lotus Notes developers and I want to ask a
> question that I am SURE we aren't the first ones to ask.
>
> We have several databases that we would like numerous external (outside
> the company) personnel to use and I am looking for the following
> advice: How is the best way to authenticate those people?
>
> Currently, for each of the external people, we are adding a person
> document to our corporate address book. I would think that there is a
> better way to do this. Can we create an 'external use only' second
> address book? Do we need to authenticate the users another way? What
> options are available to us?
>
> If anyone has any suggestions or needs more detail than this, either
> post a follow-up to this message or e-mail me at
> cbuege-at-NOSPAMmoreycorp.com removing the 'NOSPAM' for the proper e-mail
> address.
>
> Thank you,
> Charles Buege
> cbuege-at-NOSPAMmoreycorp.com
>
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