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pmwww | Guests not able to view boards (21st Aug 08 at 7:02am UTC) Resolved | | Forum URL: http://freunion.vforums.co.uk Experienced By: me, and most likely other guests Browser: FF3/IE, other guests unknown Operating System: Windows XP, Guests OS Unknown
Problem: Right I have "board viewable by guests" checked, but when I am either on FF3, or IE, it says "An Error Has Occurred: You must login to access this area."
I want guests to view my boards, so they become interested.
That's probably why I am not getting any members, but I do get over 100 page views daily (well users online in the past 24 hours area).
What could be the problem?
I double checked the "Manage Forum Permissions" area, and for the guests its all green (besides the staff area) and its all checked.
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: Guests not able to view boards (21st Aug 08 at 8:19am UTC) | | Guests cannot access those boards because you've set the category it is in to only be accessible to members. You need to uncheck all boxes for the category to allow guests access to that area. | |
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pmwww | Re: Guests not able to view boards (22nd Aug 08 at 4:56am UTC) | | Nope its all checked, and guests still are not able to view the boards. They can see all the content, but not the content in the boards. | |
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: Guests not able to view boards (22nd Aug 08 at 8:35am UTC) | | Guests cannot access those boards because you've set the category it is in to only be accessible to members. You need to uncheck all boxes for the category to allow guests access to that area. | |
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pmwww | Re: Guests not able to view boards (22nd Aug 08 at 8:42am UTC) | | Oh mis read it. oops XD
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Ok I un-checked them, and still they are not able to view the content of the boards. I went into the "View Boards" un-check the guest column, then I went into the "View Categories" and the Guest column is not there. | |
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pmwww | Re: Guests not able to view boards (22nd Aug 08 at 10:31am UTC) | | Oh  mis read it. oops XD edit: Ok I un-checked them, and still they are not able to view the content of the boards. I went into the "View Boards" un-check the guest column, then I went into the "View Categories" and the Guest column is not there.
If you want guests to view, then all the boxes in the "modify category" page need to be unchecked - if you check them, then only those groups will be able to access it - for example, checking them all will essentially make it "members only" and unchecking them all will make it viewable to everyone, including guests | |
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: Guests not able to view boards (22nd Aug 08 at 10:33am UTC) | | Oh  mis read it. oops XD edit: Ok I un-checked them, and still they are not able to view the content of the boards. I went into the "View Boards" un-check the guest column, then I went into the "View Categories" and the Guest column is not there.
Guests cannot access those boards because you've set the category it is in to only be accessible to members. You need to uncheck all boxes for the category to allow guests access to that area.
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Nick Very Senior Member
    
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pmwww | Re: Guests not able to view boards (23rd Aug 08 at 7:26am UTC) | | Ok So I un-checked them.... Guests still cannot view inside the boards.
I went into the "Modify Category" individually un-checked them all. | |
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pmwww | Re: Guests not able to view boards (23rd Aug 08 at 9:05am UTC) | | Ok So I un-checked them.... Guests still cannot view inside the boards.
I went into the "Modify Category" individually un-checked them all.
I didn't check them all, but in the "Announcements" board, you've unchecked the "view board" for guests | |
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pmwww | Re: Guests not able to view boards (23rd Aug 08 at 7:06pm UTC) | | Well that worked.
Then I went into the "manage forum permissions" then checked the guests column in the view boards area.
But what I don't get is that, Ross told me to un-check all the guest box's? when I first made this thread I made sure that the guest column's were checked.
So I do not understand how that is. | |
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pmwww | Re: Guests not able to view boards (24th Aug 08 at 9:32am UTC) | | But what I don't get is that, Ross told me to un-check all the guest box's? when I first made this thread I made sure that the guest column's were checked.
So I do not understand how that is.
No, he said:
Guests cannot access those boards because you've set the category it is in to only be accessible to members. You need to uncheck all boxes for the category to allow guests access to that area. - unchecking the boxes in the category permissions, not unchecking the "guests" bozes in the board permissions | |
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