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Granting Access to the Portal Site

After you have created a portal site, you can give users access to the portal site by assigning users to site groups. The following site groups are installed by default, and you can also create custom site groups.

• Reader   Allows users to search, view, and browse content in the site.
• Member   Allows users to submit listings and create personal sites.
• Contributor   Allows users to submit content to areas in the site to which they are granted rights.
• Web Designer   Allows users to change layout and settings on a Web page to which they are granted rights.
• Administrator   Allows users full control of the Web site.
• Content Manager   Allows users to manage all settings and content in an area to which they are granted rights.

You can adjust access to areas of the portal site by assigning users to a site group for a specific area.

Local users and groups added to a site group in a server farm deployment of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 must be located on a front-end Web server.

Any attempt to add a local user or group from a computer that is not a front-end Web server will fail with the error message "The User does not exist."

Grant access to the portal site

1. On the Site Settings page, in the General Settings section, click Manage users.
2. On the Manage Users page, click Add Users.
3. On the Add Users: portal_site_name page, in the Step 1: Choose Users section, in the Users box, type an e-mail address or account name.

   Tips

   • Separate multiple entries with semicolons.
   • Type account names in the format DOMAIN\user_name.
   • To find users from Microsoft Active Directory directory service, click Select users and groups.
4. In the Step 2: Choose Site Groups section, select the check box for each site group to which you want to assign a user, and then click Next.
5. In the Step 3: Confirm Users section, verify the e-mail address, user name, and display name for each user that you entered in the Step 1: Choose Users section.
6. In the Step 4: Send E-mail section, do the following:
   1. If you want to send an e-mail message to users telling them that they have been granted access, select the Send the following e-mail to let these users know they've been added check box.

      Note  Before you can send e-mail, the server farm administrator must configure the e-mail server settings from the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration for server_name page.

   2. If you want to customize the message, type your changes in the Subject and Body boxes.
7. Click Finish.

Related Topics

Managing Site Groups and Permissions