Hello,I am new to using sharepoint for extranets. I have a requirement to store sensitive documents for my customers and provide access to these documents via the internet. I believe sharepoint is the ideal solution as it provides functionality in the document store I need such as searching, versioning, permissions etc, as well as extranet access. The problem is, my customers do not want to have to log into access the documents and I do not want to maintain their user accounts. The ideal solution is to grant access based on their IP Address, range of IP addresses, or domain. The desired solution is this: The customer navigates to a page, there ip address is in range so can access the dcument store and they download the documents they want. I think I can do this via IIS (security tab on the virtual directory/web site). However then I will need to manually create a site each time I have a new customer. Does anyone have a better solution to this problem, which has low maintanence overhead with no sign on reqiured or single sign on over the internet?Thanks,Steve

If you want to share the same content of the site with different URL and restrict permission to users, you can extend web application by adding new port and you can create unique permissions for this extened site collection like choosing different authencation zone (extranet) by adding that URL in Aleternet Access Mappings.Ram.Ram

Hi, It is a good question, but I have not found any mature solution for you. You may need to rewrite your own authentication logic and this article should be helpful for you. Identity and Access Strategies for SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part 1): Membership and Provider Architecture You could start with adding an IP Addresses property for the FBA user account and use this account to perform authentication. Hope it helps. -lambertSincerely, Lambert Qin Posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.