Hi, This is a complex issue that is difficult to explain, so please forgive me if this sounds confusing. >Hello, I am an Associate Prof. and the Men's Track and Cross Country >Coach at MIT. On my home page I have set >up a "Team Members Only" link which currently takes the groups >track-field, and cross-country to a list of articles pertaining to >their event. The problem is that they have to be on Athena in order >to be able to view the articles. The problem is that your home pages must be stored as system:anyuser read in order for any user to read a home page. It is complicated by the fact that your files are stored in AFS, a system which can be accessed from many web servers including web.mit.edu, tute.mit.edu, and www.mit.edu. The big problem is that web interprets access restriction commands (in a file called .htaccess) differently from www.mit.edu. The problem is that if you password-protect pages on www.mit.edu, any user can read it via web.mit.edu and vice versa. There is one other option. tute.mit.edu only allows MIT machines and allows you to use password protection -- but outside users can't access this machine. You want to have passwords *and* allow outside machines. There isn't a foolproof way that will help you unless you run your own web server. If your data is not extremely sensitive, you can just choose a server (web or www) and password protect it there. But if a user happens to access your files via the other server, the pages will not be protected. To learn about .htaccess files (the file that handles the password protection), read http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/user.html We'll try to help if you have questions. >I would like to be able to set it up so that only those groups can >view this link, but do it from outside of MIT as well as from Athena. >Can this be done and if so what do I have to do in order to make it >happen? See http://web.mit.edu/cwis/tute/mitmostly2.html for information on the MIT only pages.