HIT: TECH- Intra-nets

[Kevin Smith <vinnie@MINET.GOV.MB.CA>]

Greetings All,

There once was a techie named Vinnie
Whose intranet drove him to Dalwynnie
He posed a question to LM_Net
and what answers did he get?
Here's the HIT: now he's no longer spinnie

Regarding Intranets:

A link from the school's web page, if the schools page is only
accessible internally, would be good.  You may run a seperate page
for internal people than for outside users(?).

The inranet term came about as an internet that is internal ... you
are still "internetworking" which was the origination.  The advantage
is that many intranets are not accessible from outside, theu you can
have information on them which is not appopriate to the general
public.  For example, on my employer's intranet, I can look up
employee phone numbers and email addresses.  On our Internet site,
all I can get is a few addresses we want to be public.  Internally,
there are forms and technical data available .... etc, etc.

Our corporate folks have an intranet server on a NT server; I wanted
to have some technical info available, and run a simple, and
apparently very good, server in my office ... they are easy to setup.

Not knowing your level of expertise, nor whether for Linux, Win9x,
WinNT, or Mac platforms, I cannot offer too much, but will mention
that the freeware product of Imatix (they spell the server as theri
name backwards xitami) is slick ...

You can actually create the server totally on the standalone, and
access it from itself (sounds strange, but its not) to see how things
work.

Links can go to a directory ... excuse me, they now call those
folders, I believe. <vbg>


(techy husband of a WONDERFUL media specialist)
(member of LM_NET Hospitality Committee, technical team)
Win31/95, Netscape, Pegasus Mail

George W. Bynum
Electro-Hydraulic Engineering Support
Cross Fluid Power
Greenville, SC
gbynum@crossco.com

     I'm at a Dept. of Defense site not a school so take this for what
it's worth to you.
I think the idea of the Intranet is an internal resource for members of
your organization.  Our set up may be a little complex for what you are
doing but here is a brief description.  Hope it helps.

Internet site on the WWW - free access to anyone.  Contains only
information that would be appropriate to a wide range of users and would
not cause harm or embarrassment to our organization.

Intranet site on another server - access limited to members of our
organization plus selected other organizations/individuals that work
closely with us.  Contains information that is proprietary or of no use
to the general public but not sensitive (in your case this may contain
some school specific data).

Extranet site on a local server - access limited to members of our
organization at our local facility.  Contains sensitive information that
would not normally be released to people outside of the organization (in
your case this might include things like attendance information, limited
access material or personal data on staff or students).

Different departments have
their own areas in the site that they do with what they want.  They
build and manage their own websites including links to material on the
local network, links to sites on the internet and locally stored online
documents and databases.  The webmaster has a search built that looks
only at the intranet pages - that would also work for you to limit to
some degree the exposure of your students to the WWW until they have
some experience with search and evaluation of sources.  I'm not sure how
a search would work for sites that were linked to from your local
network rather than actually located on the local network.

Ken Colyer
Student, Master of Media and Instructional Technology
State University of West GA.

Kevin "Vinnie the Librarian" Smith
<a href="mailto:vinnie@mbnet.mb.ca">vinnie</a>
Library Technician
Roblin Elementary School
Roblin, Manitoba
CANADA R0L 1P0

" Read all the books thou can for thou art sufficient to judge for thyself
" - Milton

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