I have a website which permits anonymous access. Now, I want to create a virtual directory that is hidden from all except only certain external users. What are external users? Users on the Internet, not users on the machine or the domain. Specifically, the users are a very small number from a software vendor. I only want the users from that software vendor to see this directory. And if that's not possible, at least those specific users will only have access to the pages inside the virtual directory.
I had thought about creating a user in the Users or Guests group and adding that user to the virtual directory Connect as Path Credentials,, but a) I don't know if this would work and b) this seems like a security risk.
Is something like I discussed above possible or will I have to create a login page and a user data store?
Thank you very much for any help.