Hi friends,
This is my first Sharepoint project. Currently my web application has only windows integration (NTLM) enabled. FBA is disabled.
I have enabled anonymous access at web application level and site level as well as for lists and libraries.
Though within the corporate network , I can access the website with any account who is a part of Active directory. How should I configure the website to be accessed by an anonymous user outside the network and how can I test this scenario. What should be the steps to deploy the sharepoint site as a public facing site as well as test for anonymous users.
my requirement is I need 2 groups of users. 1. Users within the corporate network having ADDS account who are responsible for content authoring and publishing and 2. Anonymous users who can read , download and submit form, which requires edit rights on a particular form library.
QUERIES :
1. Will Anonymous user configuration help to achieve this since I had read that anonymous users cannot have edit rights on document libraries.
2. Do I need to implement impersonation as in whenever an anonymous user access website , internally he will be logged in as a guest user AD account so that I can give permissions accordingly. If yes, then how do I do this. Can you provide me with some useful links for this.
3. there should be a sign in option as well so that Corporate users can login with their credentials.
4. even after enabling anonymous access , when the website is accessed it prompts for username and password.
How to handle this. By default I want it as an anonymous access. But when clicked on sign in , it should authenticate the user and give appropriate rights.
To set up such an architecture, what should be my approach? Sorry for any unrelated qtns, but I 'm really blank when it comes to security configuration. Please guide me. Thanks. :)