I am using a sharepoint service hosted through comcast. I can add people to a group to give them access to the site, but I am having trouble adding people outside of our organization. can this be done and if so, how

You need to either add the user to the domain by adding in the Active Directory. The web application needs to be configured for FORMS base authentication for external users to be added. http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/windows-forms/configuring-forms-authentication-in-sharepoint-2007/ Do you have access to the Server that has SharePoint installed on it? If not, you will need to either request the hosting company to provide you access or ask them to do the above. Hope this helps.V

Thanks for the help. I do not have access to the server so I will pass along this information.

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