ASP.Net and Sharepoint

[Nathan Gloyn]

I've recently move company and new company currenlty uses as an interface with external clients sharepoint to provide document share and other functionality. Since I've never used sharepoint whereby external users are accessing an internally hosted sharepoint and I was wondering if anybody could give me some pro's and con's over this approach and if there are any other alternative approaches. One issue I have already come across is that we are using Windows Authentication which means that every user that accesses the sharepoint site has to exist on our network. Cheers Nathan