Remote Access through ISA Server

[James Garnett]

We have Class Server and Sharepoint sitting behind an ISA server.

When using the teacher client and pointing it directly to the Class Server
Server it works fine. But if I point it via the ISA server it refuses to let
traffic through as it is not authenticated (I think)- this is whether I am
trying to do it remotely from home or within school. I am assuming that this
was not a problem when you could run .hta from within explorer as you could
have authenticated on the Sharepoint site, however now that it is not
possible I am stuck as to how to let teachers from home access using the
teacher client. Does anyone know of a workaround to this either in opening
ports on the ISA server or getting .hta to run from explorer either IE6 or
IE7?

[James Stewart]

We had a similar problem with opening .hta files in Sharepoint through ISA,
but for us it was consistent internally and externally. Our workaround for
this (and .exe files as well) was to use a vb script. Prompts a few more
times then we would like (twice in total), but works.

Post by James Garnett
We have Class Server and Sharepoint sitting behind an ISA server.
When using the teacher client and pointing it directly to the Class Server
Server it works fine. But if I point it via the ISA server it refuses to let
traffic through as it is not authenticated (I think)- this is whether I am
trying to do it remotely from home or within school. I am assuming that this
was not a problem when you could run .hta from within explorer as you could
have authenticated on the Sharepoint site, however now that it is not
possible I am stuck as to how to let teachers from home access using the
teacher client. Does anyone know of a workaround to this either in opening
ports on the ISA server or getting .hta to run from explorer either IE6 or
IE7?

[James Garnett]

James

How should I structure the scipt. It is a while since I did scripting in vb
and am very rusty.

Post by James Stewart
We had a similar problem with opening .hta files in Sharepoint through ISA,
but for us it was consistent internally and externally. Our workaround for
this (and .exe files as well) was to use a vb script. Prompts a few more
times then we would like (twice in total), but works.

Post by James Garnett
We have Class Server and Sharepoint sitting behind an ISA server.
When using the teacher client and pointing it directly to the Class Server
Server it works fine. But if I point it via the ISA server it refuses to let
traffic through as it is not authenticated (I think)- this is whether I am
trying to do it remotely from home or within school. I am assuming that this
was not a problem when you could run .hta from within explorer as you could
have authenticated on the Sharepoint site, however now that it is not
possible I am stuck as to how to let teachers from home access using the
teacher client. Does anyone know of a workaround to this either in opening
ports on the ISA server or getting .hta to run from explorer either IE6 or
IE7?

[James Stewart]

Hi James - here is our vbscript - just copy the lines below into a text file
and rename it as whatever.vbs and link to it.

---------------------------------------
'Class Server Detection Script

Option Explicit

dim strfile,filesys,wshell

strFile = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Class
Server\Client\Web\Client\TeacherClient\teacherclient.hta"

Set FileSys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

If FileSys.FileExists(strfile) Then

Set WShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WShell.Run "C:\WINDOWS\system32\mshta.exe " & chr(34) & "C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Class
Server\Client\Web\Client\TeacherClient\teacherclient.hta" & chr(34)

Else

MsgBox "Class Server Teacher Client not detected - Please install the
Class Server Teacher Client from within the Portal"
Wscript.Quit

End If
-------------------------------------------

Regards, James

Post by James Garnett
James
How should I structure the scipt. It is a while since I did scripting in vb
and am very rusty.

Post by James Stewart
We had a similar problem with opening .hta files in Sharepoint through ISA,
but for us it was consistent internally and externally. Our workaround for
this (and .exe files as well) was to use a vb script. Prompts a few more
times then we would like (twice in total), but works.

Post by James Garnett
We have Class Server and Sharepoint sitting behind an ISA server.
When using the teacher client and pointing it directly to the Class Server
Server it works fine. But if I point it via the ISA server it refuses to let
traffic through as it is not authenticated (I think)- this is whether I am
trying to do it remotely from home or within school. I am assuming that this
was not a problem when you could run .hta from within explorer as you could
have authenticated on the Sharepoint site, however now that it is not
possible I am stuck as to how to let teachers from home access using the
teacher client. Does anyone know of a workaround to this either in opening
ports on the ISA server or getting .hta to run from explorer either IE6 or
IE7?

[Chatarina]

Hi James

We had the same problem. The Web listener in the ISA was set to 'all users
have to autenticate'. When unchecking that on the web listener it worked for
us.

Post by James Garnett
We have Class Server and Sharepoint sitting behind an ISA server.
When using the teacher client and pointing it directly to the Class Server
Server it works fine. But if I point it via the ISA server it refuses to let
traffic through as it is not authenticated (I think)- this is whether I am
trying to do it remotely from home or within school. I am assuming that this
was not a problem when you could run .hta from within explorer as you could
have authenticated on the Sharepoint site, however now that it is not
possible I am stuck as to how to let teachers from home access using the
teacher client. Does anyone know of a workaround to this either in opening
ports on the ISA server or getting .hta to run from explorer either IE6 or
IE7?