Restrict access to IP

[Moe]

I am using filemaker server for custom web publishing. Can anybody please tell me how I can restrict access to databases to users by IP address? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Moe

PS

I am running on Windows XP

[herrix]

You'll be running IIS I guess?

If so, restrict the acces to your website by setting IP restrictions.

HTH

Hartger

[Moe]

Thanks for replying. I am running IIS. Let me explain the situation. My company uses certificates. Using a perl script, I can access these certificates and retrieve a user ID. I want to restrict write access to users who have the certificate. Also, when a user creates a new record, I want their id (that comes from the certificate) to be entered into the database automatically, and I don't want them to be able to tamper with that.

One idea I have is that the perl script sends http requests to enter new records into the database, and I limit write access to the perl script using the IP address that the script is run from.

Do you think I'm going about this the right way?

[herrix]

Is it possible to add users to a specific group on the server?

If that is the case, just add a privilege set to the database authenticating this group of users, check out the tech brief on external authentication.

(this works on server-level, not sure if it does on iwp.)

Hope i'm still helping...

Hartger