Creating a password protected intranet subweb

[vbuser1976]

Hi Forum Buddies!

I need your help once again. I have a Company intranet that I am creating. I have been asked to create a subweb with very confidential information which would need to be password protected so that only certain persons will be allowed in. How do I start that? I already looked at setting up permissions but that is not what I am looking for. I saw on one of the websites that I frequent, where when you need to go to a secured place, a dialog box comes up and asks for a username and password before allowing the page to view. Also, I do not want the users to be able to self registrate. Any ideas out there?

[kovan]

www.4guysfromrolla.com

lot of stuff there on passwords
or

aspin.com

[JoshT]

If you're using IIS, you can disable anonymous access on a virtual directory. Then you can use NTFS permissions on each file in the virt. dir. to say who can see them. If you're running NT4/5 and your users log on to a domain and run IE, the access control will be transparent to your users -- no username prompt, it'll be handled automagically.

[vbuser1976]

Thanks for the help, buddies!