Hello, I am running an intranet site for employees where I work, and due to our latest Windows Server 2003 w/ Active Directory upgrade, I decided to create a page within the intranet site that contains a javascript that enables employees to browse each user, and display various info. like phone number, location etc. The Javascript file pulls this employee data from an Access Database, located on the WebServer in the intranet directory. The problem is, when you try to pull up the page on a machine connected to the domain through our standard browser Internet Explorer 6 SP1, The script appears but no data is present, and a message in the IE window appears above, explaining:
"Data Access Pages has detected that your IE security settings will not allow you to access data from a site considered to be insecure."
I can get it to show up by going to IE Internet Properties, and adding "http://www.ci.desoto.tx.us" as a secure site, which I know there is a way to workaround this problem so that this is not necessary - Also, and this is not as important but I'll say it anyway: Whenever I try and browse the page from a computer not connected to the network like my home PC, the database is not present at all, I get an error message explaining that it cannot find "\\desotoweb\intranet\employeedirectory\database.mdb" or something to that effect. How would I go about publishing the Database online so that anyone can view it nomatter where the location? I appreciate your help guys.
The Web Server is running Windows 2000 Server, with IIS 5.5. Are there any specific instructions anyone can offer me as to how I can apply the intranet site as a trusted, secure site through IE on all workstations? The majority of our users are Win2000, but I would say 40% are XP. We are running an active directory, and since we just implemented this, I am not aware how to apply this to all machines (So that it is inputted on all user machines after they log off, or reboot for instance).
Can you explain the steps I would need to take to make the path to the access database relative to the server rather than the user? By the way, the javascript I was referring to is an actual interface implemented into the website, with a list of each user. Once a user is selected from the list, all the user information appears in different windows to the right. All user data is pulled from the access database, which is contained within a folder in the main intranet directory of the web server. This folder gives everyone Read/Write permissions.