How
you get to a SharePoint site depends on the location of that site. Most
often, your system administrator will give you the location. Your
company might have several sites, and an administrator should supply
you with links to the sites you should be aware of. Possible examples
of such links are http://portal or http://homecompanyname. In this book, we use http://sharepoint as the example link.
or http://Note
SharePoint sites can have
subsites. If there is a subsite under sharepoint called sample, for
example, the path to the site would be http://sharepoint/sample.
To get to the site itself, you open the link supplied to you in any Internet browser, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox.
Depending on the setup of the
site itself, you might be prompted for a password. Because SharePoint
often is configured to automatically identify you, it is very likely
that you will not be prompted, and SharePoint will log you on with the
user name and password you used when you logged on to your computer. If
you are prompted, fill in the user name and password that your
administrator advised you to use (see Figure 1).
If for some reason you do
not have permissions to the SharePoint site you are trying to open,
SharePoint displays an Access Denied page, telling you that you don’t
have permissions (see Figure 2).
This page also allows you to sign in as a different user. When you
click the link, you are prompted for a user name and password, which
will be used to log you on to the site again.
Once
you are logged on, the SharePoint site opens. SharePoint sites look
different from one another, depending on the way the site mangers set
up the sites.
