Getting
to a SharePoint site depends on the location of that site. Most often,
your system administrator gives you the location. Your company might
have several sites, and the administrators should supply you with links
to the sites you should be aware of.
Possible examples of such links are http://portal or http://home or http://companyname. This book uses http://sharepoint as the sample link.
Note
SharePoint sites can have subsites, so if there is a subsite called “sample,” the path to the site would be http://sharepoint/sample.
To
get to the site itself, just open the link supplied to you in an
Internet browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or other browsers.
Depending
on the setup of the site itself or the settings in your browser, you
might or might not be prompted for a password. Because SharePoint is
often configured to automatically identify you, it is very likely that
you will not be prompted, and SharePoint will log you on with the
username and password you used when you logged on to your computer. If
you are prompted, fill in the username 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 2.2).
This page also enables you to sign in as a different user. By clicking
that link, you are prompted for a username and password, which is used
to log you on to the site again.
When
you are logged on, the SharePoint site opens. Different SharePoint
sites look different from one another, depending on the way the site
manager set up the site. Figure 3 shows how such a site might look.
