I'm thinking of moving from FM6 Pro to FM unlimited to accomodate more users both internal and external. One of the questions I have is with using IIS with the web connector. My solution is hosted on an NT box with IIS. I like to know how the security databases interact with NT security. I don't want our internal users to have to type in a password since they are already logged into our domain. The internet users should have to log in to obviously keep unwanted people out. Can I use NT authentication only as a security strategy? Or do I have to use the web security databases in FM? Or can they be mixed? I'm asking the question because there is no trial version to check out. Otherwise I'd experiment a little first.

Thanks for any help,

Mark Durgee

The FM and domain securities are 2 separate things. What you'll use in FM will be separated. It doesn't matter, if you use security built in FM for Intranet and CDML or web security databases for CDML -- everything is outside of Windows stuff.

So there is no way to pass NT authentication to FM? I'd like to avoid a user from having to log on to Windows and then have to log in to FM.

BTW -- users doesn't have to be logged to anything at all to use FileMaker. The only login necessary depends on the type of security is set up in FM. FM TCP/IP transport is completely independent of Windows.