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Posted: 02 April 2008 at 1:59pm |
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Wondering:
Is anyone here using the "free" version of the forum for their workplace?
How are you using it?
Does it integrate with Windows XP login and/or Active directory? We'd like "single-signon" meaning if they are logged into windows, and open their browser and go to a forum, they are automatically logged in as them.
Is this possible?
How is that done?
What's the best way to use this on an INTERNAL network, or INTRANET (not InTERnet, but InTRAnet) or can it?
We need a way to communicate within IT here, and toss things back and forth, and email is SO clumsy that way!
Where's the free version limitation list again?
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Posted: 02 April 2008 at 2:06pm |
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To enable Windows Authentication/Active Directory edit in the notepad the file functions/functions_windows_authentication.asp and follow the instructions in that file to enable it.
You also need to ensure that anonymous browsing is turned off in IIS for the web site so that only users logged in to the computer or the network through Windows Authentication or Active Directory can access the website.
This works best on an intranet but can be used on a public server with internet access as well. It's fairly simple to setup if you have active directory already enabled on your network, and just requires that it be enabled in web wiz forums.
The free versions limitations are it doesn't have PM's, Calendar System, and Upload Tools.
Edited by WebWiz-Bruce - 02 April 2008 at 2:10pm
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Posted: 02 April 2008 at 6:46pm |
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WOW, that sounds easy.
One question I forgot........ because of security mandates, we must change our passwords every 60 days. So say in 50 days, my active directory/Windows password will expire and I'll have 14 days to change it, no choice. I CAN change it sooner, but must within that time.
How does the forum react if I change my password, then the next day get into windows and then the forum?
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Posted: 02 April 2008 at 6:57pm |
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Your login is handled by Active Directory so as long as your username doesn't change then there isn't a problem.
When you browse to the forum when Active Directory is enabled it will get your username from Windows Login/Active Directory, it then checks to see if that user exists in the database if it does it logs you in under that username, if it doesn't it creates an account for you under your Windows Login/Active Directory username.
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Posted: 04 April 2008 at 1:58pm |
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Hey, that works well. It gets you a membership and signed in really slick.
I've got a test example, or sandbox setup with SQLEXPRESS for the bosses to look at and go from there.
One other question, however......
There's code for URL, EMAIL, etc etc. but what we REALLY need is code to allow us to link to files on our member servers. These files won't be on a web server. Anyone accessing the forums software on our INTERNAL IIS box will also have access to files on other servers in the domain.
I'd like to be able to post a message such as:
The April Financial newsletter has been released and can be found at:
\\vrserver1\dsm\financial\word.doc
and then they can click the link and get to that file, JUST like it works if you put a link to a FILE on our servers in an email message. They can click in the email message and get right to the file on the server.
Is this possible???
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Posted: 04 April 2008 at 2:05pm |
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I would imagine it could be done.
What you could try doing is editing the RTE_popup_link.asp page and changing the address drop down with http://, https://, ftp:// etc. in with an extra one which just has \\
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Posted: 04 April 2008 at 3:58pm |
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Darn. It strips the back-slashes needed.
I type in \\vrdsmfs1\dsm which is file server name and folder name, and it ends up as:
\vrdsmfs1dsm instead.
The server name must be preceded by \\ and folders separated by \ then the file name separated from the folder name by a \ if the file is included.
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Posted: 04 April 2008 at 9:42pm |
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It looks like the problem is that \ is an escape character in Javascript which is what is used to place the link into the editor.
You may find that putting in \\\\ would fix the issue. If it does then you would need to add in some code that would replace \ with \\
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