External Clients

[CanNear]

We have a new requirement to support external customers
who will require external access to send and receive
files to/from our Windows 2000 environment.

Are there any "best practices" that the grouop could
suggest so that we can securely provide this service to
our external customers?

 

[Herb Martin]

We have a new requirement to support external customers
who will require external access to send and receive
files to/from our Windows 2000 environment.

Are there any "best practices" that the grouop could
suggest so that we can securely provide this service to
our external customers?

I doubt there are any real "best practices" but there are some
methods -- with various levels of security and convenience.

Do you know the general possibilities?

You might be best served with something like HTTP -- and use
either Windows accounts or issue "certificates" to the users and
then authenticate with "certificate mapping."

You can of course give them FTP, or regular (SMB) file access.

All of these methods are going to require SOME method of
authentication in almost all security environments.