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navaldesign · #13 10-06-2006, 06:23 AM

I thought we were talking about visitors being able to connect to the company's server and work with a PROGRAM installed on the company server. By intranet we usually intend a LAN or group of LANS, for sharing resources and information through a company. This Intranet can be Internet, MAN or WAN based. The intranet has two different aspects (or should i say parts). One is like Web , meaning that communication is made through a software like IE, FF or other browser. The files that are shared are static or dynamic pages but anyway they behave as inetrnet html files, taking information from databases and working with scripts that make database management. Typical application is the intranet of big automobile companies, where with an internet connection, a branch located f.e. in Rome, can look up the central database to see if a spare part exists in the central store or not. In this case, access from the internet is possible, and the link is a simple hyperlink.
That's because the database and the scripts that manage it are web like.

The second part instead of an intranet, is that of sharing applications (as i do in my job) where there is a "core" on the server accessible by all locations of the intranet and a copy of the application is also installed on every workstation. Every single user has access to the core, which also has the duty of keeping up with real time updates toward all other users, checking for conflicts etc. In this case, since these applications are very specific ones, and i don't know many (to be honest, i don't know ANY) of them being able to export the results in a form that can be useful for an Internet based work, it is not possible to access the application from the internet.

Since the original post was talking about using a program on the company server, i must have misread the post, supposing that we were talking about this second case.