Sure thing treasureman, I too had it with my old IPB installation and I missed it!

I guess the argument is pretty moot, but that was my understanding of cloaking as well.

The spiders are not handled as registered member they get same before "acces denied". Have a new spiders_vbulletin.xml and vbulletin recognize and show them as spiders. Any help about that?

Things to check:
-- Did you make the code change to init.php in the includes/ directory?

-- Make sure the plugin is active.

-- Double check that the group ID you're placing them in exists and has permission to view whatever they're trying to view.

Yeah I created a new group just for spiders and made that group unable to post because if you set the spiders to use the Registered Users group then someone could change their user agent to the spider user agent and post on your board without registering. Works great!

Thanks, checked everything, usergroup for registered members is 2, but it is not working.

What exactly are the robots trying to do that they're getting permission denied errors on? Some functions won't work because they don't have a real user id.

vba inks directory and vbgallery

I have Photopost VBGallery, let me check a couple of things out, it might not be fully compatible with 3rd party addons, but I'll check.

Yes, these 3rd party addons have their own permission set, so this mod won't work with them. Sorry about that.

ok, thank you