Creating sites for outside clients?

[zanity84]

Hello,

I currently have Alfresco 4.0.e community installed as a test server to see if we can start integrating it more in our company. Currently, I have it set up for Active Directory authentication, and domain users are easily able to access and create sites. My main intention is to replace our current FTP system with Alfresco so that outside clients are able to share documents in a more secure manner.

I wanted to find out if there was a way to create sites for clients who are not a part of the domain. I want to be able to create a site in which a client can use to share content, but I would like it to be separate from our domain content; this would be easier than having to create a new AD account for each client.

Can this be done? I can explain more if needed. I appreciate the help!

[billerby]

If you are chaning your authentication subsystems to use both AlfrescoNTLM and AD, you can always create the external user accounts directly in Alfresco as an administrator. That is, your domain users are synched from your AD and the other user accounts you will handle inside Alfresco. This should be a straightforward approach.

Regards
/Erik

[zanity84]

Right on, thank you for the reply.

I remember seeing the authentication chain in alfresco-global.properties. I'm assuming it will take the entered credentials and compare them to each entity within the chain, yes? Would it matter what order I put them in? Thanks again,