Hello, is there a way to add existing users to my sharepoint site usen a database? for example i have a company with 150 employee. i already have a database with these users. is there a way i can use this database to find these employee and add them to my sharepoint site?

What authentication you have? forms member authentication or AD users? do you have other type of membership?Andr Lage Microsoft SharePoint, CRM and Sybase Consultant Blog:http://aaclage.blogspot.com Codeplex:http://spupload.codeplex.com/http://simplecamlsearch.codeplex.com/

i'm new with this. i just created a web application and its site collection, now i'm add the part of adding users. but i only see a way of adding user manually

Hi, You can check your current authentication by going to Central Admin site -> Application Management -> Authentication Provider -> Choose the right web application and click the Zone name, you’ll get info about the authentication provider being used. If users are stored in a user account database, Form Based Authentication provide support for this kind of authentication and users can be added to SharePoint. To get started with FBA configuration, please read this series reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975136(office.12).aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262201(office.12).aspx Thanks & Regards.Lily Wu

ok, i see that the authentication type is Windows. i'm gonna try the FBA configuration thnx

sorry but i have another question. is there a way that you can let a user fill in a register form with a username and a password to log in? like in visual web developer you can use the createUserWizard that the user creates an account. and then the user use the login page to log in. can't you use this in sharepoint services 3.0?

Hi jenfifi, There is a OOB login page for FBA user. You can also have a custom login page and redirect user to that page for authentication. Here is a good reference to get started. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/syedi/archive/2009/06/06/how-to-by-pass-the-oob-login-aspx-page-of-a-fba-site-when-logging-in-from-external-site-with-right-credentials.aspx Thanks & Regards.Lily Wu