not a bad idea, but since all we have eight offices scattered around the city without wan or vpn access, i can't concievably do that.
if one could just use .htaccess/.htpasswd to authenticate local users, that would probably be the easiest method (at least, for the users).
i know i've seen it donw on osx systems, various linuxes, and winblows boxes. any ideas on how to implement that on sme?