intranet design

[jme]

Hi guys,
i have been asked by a local school to design them an intranet that will only be accessed from within their lan. I have done lots of development on internet design and configuring apache for internet use but never for intranets. Is there much difference at all??

Any advice or links would be excellent.

Many thanks,

Jamie

[XiaoKJ]

not much difference than to make a router isn't it?

[bryan.6]

is this intranet a website that's only accessible from inside the lan? or is it a list of services like http, ftp, smb shares... what are you going for here? also, where's it going to be? one server? is the outgoing internet server (if you have one) the same as the intranet server?

i guess the simple way to do this would be to restrict access to your services based on ip, since you probably know all of the ip ranges within the lan.

i don't know how in depth you want to get, but for an intranet website, at my school everybody has a login, and if a person wants to log into the intranet off campus, the website checks their login to see if it's an authorized person. if it's on campus, it's just assumed that the person has rights, so it lets them in without username/password (unless needed).