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507697 2006-12-18 12:57:00 Hey guys,

I want to build a webpage to serve patches and other files to users on my LAN, but I'm not sure exactly how one should go about it. I think what I want is an intranet page... I need it to be automatically displayed whenever users open the browser.

Would anyone be able to explain how to do this, or link to a tutorial which explains it?

Thanks in advance,
Logan.
Aurealis_ (7897)
507698 2006-12-18 16:19:00 Although I've never done it before, should be dead easy. Create a webpage, make it the homepage in the others' browsers, and link your files, patches etc to wherever you've stored them. Greg (193)
507699 2006-12-19 11:51:00 Although I've never done it before, should be dead easy. Create a webpage, make it the homepage in the others' browsers, and link your files, patches etc to wherever you've stored them.

Well, that is a possible option, but what I've seen before is a page that resides on an intranet server and is automatically accessed as part of using the network. For example, whenever you connect to a Telecom Hot Spot, the browser is automatically directed to Telecom's Login/Payment screen. I want to set up a similar option for my LAN as some of my users are too simplistic to setup the home page themselves.

If it's of any relevance to a potential solution; all my computers are running Windows rather than Linux. IIS will be the web-server technology of choice, at this point.

Cheers,
Logan.
Aurealis_ (7897)
507700 2006-12-19 17:49:00 do as greg says
make your web page/ site
put it on a network share
map a drive to that share
then point the browser at it for example j:\home.htm
beama (111)
507701 2006-12-19 19:34:00 If there's a webserver, then there's no need to use shares - just point the browser homepage at ip.address.of.webserver If you want to intercept and redirect web traffic to this page, you will need a fancy router - try something like m0n0wall (m0n0.ch), which can do this. Erayd (23)
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