KarenArt — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:43:13 +0000

Hi sakthisudhan!

I've never had to develop an intranet myself (although I like to bug the tech guys at my husband's office who have).
Will you be the only one working on this project or will there be someone else on your team?

What my husbands buisness has is a public side with an internet website (that seriously needs to be redone) and a private side which is the intranet. The private intranet holds the databases of files and information that they only want the employees to be able to access. It doesn't matter which building they're in or what computer they're on... but they have to be networked into the companies intranet to access it.
A lot of the technical side of the networking is beyond me, so I couldn't be any help to you with it.

btw as a footnote... the servers they use there are Windows servers. I have heard all 3 of the tech guys complain numerous times that they wished they'd gone with Unix instead because the Windows system has a nasty habit of crashing constantly. (Maybe the newer Windows servers are more stable now).

Best of luck with this!
Let us know how it goes!

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:34:08 +0000

I don't know the details about creating an intranet, so I'll give a general response.

As Roo suggests, an intranet is like the internet -- that is, it is a network -- except it's not public. Generally, you'll run a web server such as Apache or IIS on your server computer. This computer usually doesn't have a connection to the internet, and is configured to accept requests only from local network clients. (Incidentally, if the server was also configured to accept requests from some remote computers, that would make it an 'extranet'.)

IIS and Windows XP may be sufficient, though you could possibly need more advanced firewall or routing applications. Not sure about that.

For client computers in the rest of the network, it shouldn't matter what OS is on them. They will be communicating via normal HTTP , FTP, etc protocols, so software like web browsers and FTP clients are all you need.

Roo — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:20:03 +0000

Well I'm a bit confused by what you're asking, but an Intranet is sort of like the internet, except it's not public. It's a private network within a company where only those who work there have access to it.

Quote: I need to have a website for our company.

Are you meaning that you will be responsible for developing a website? For developing an intranet? What?

I don't know a lot about intranet development, but I assume a server would be needed, possibly some sort of database as well.

Quote: Can anyone give me suggestion today itself pls?

About what exactly?