Question Re: Extranet access in Technology Q&A

Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:53:03 GMT

Hello together,

Do you know any documents / help for building a extranet access to the portal?

Did you already implement an extranet access? How did you proceed?

Thanks in advance for any any help.

Regards,

Stefan

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Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:08:06 GMT

Hi,

Did u mean implementing external facing portal,if so

the following url might be helpful.check this out.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/04/e5b7c3de384515afeafa0dab8e44e0/frameset.htm

Rgds,

Santhosh

Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:19:23 GMT

Hello Santhosh,

Hmm, I'm not really sure if this is what I'm looking for.

I mean an external access (with username & password) for customers, etc through the portal in the internet.

Customers, suppliers should have access to specific WebDynpro's for having access to R/3 content in "realtime".

Regards,

Stefan

Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:39:38 GMT

Does your company already have a DMZ? If so, place a proxy server there and your customers will be able to access your portal from there.

Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:04:25 GMT

Yes we have a DMZ. There is an Apache with reverse proxy running.

Fact is, it is running and we have over the internet an https access to our portal.

But I'm looking for a "good" How-To guide for the implementation and configuration of the proxy / apache / or what else.

We created a extranet logon group in the User Administration for e.g. customers. In the master rule collection we defined a special portal desktop with only their rules.

Problem whith this configuration is, that every internal user can also logon through the extranet (unfortunately also the admin users).

Can for e.g. the access for admin users be excluded from login over the extranet?

So you see, I'm looking for a complete all in one help...

Stefan

Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:09:38 GMT

What are you doing for an LDAP?

Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:12:02 GMT

No LDAP - only Portal Database. All users are defined in the portal database.

Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:13:13 GMT

All internal users and also the customers for the extranet. The customers are in a special extranet user group for route them to another portal desktop.

Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:33:51 GMT

I have no idea on where to get good apache resources.

To restrict access based on groups is one thing, but you needs a solution that is based on the network they are coming from.

Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:36:45 GMT

Is this only an apache issue? Can the access be controlled only in the apache and not in the portal?

Would it make any difference if we used LDAP? How would it work there?

Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:50:14 GMT

At first it didn't click with me that you don't want internal users to use the portal over the internet.

No, LDAP would not make a difference.

I know will IIS you can set up the site for user name and password, I am not sure with Apache.

Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:10:29 GMT

Internal users are ok to logon over the internet. I would like to block "admin"-users to logon over the internet.

Re: Extranet access

Former Member — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:55:31 GMT

Hi,

We are in a similiar situation. Please let me know if you have a solution.

Thanks...

Vinay