[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by berayiwu5

I am still new to Links and Downloads. I read the manual quite closely, but I still can't seem to make it work with vBulletin. I think I've taken the necessary steps. I have enabled can_access_links, etc. and set the necessarily daily downloads and bandwidth allowances. For testing purpose, I uploaded a couple of files as attachments and set the daily downloads to 2 for administrators. But for some reason, I can still download these attachments many times. And when I click on "view hits," there is no information about anyone having downloaded the attachments. What am I missing? BTW, I don't quite understand how the category function works. All I need for now is to limit the viewing/downloading of attachments I upload along with the posts I create.

Thanks for your help for this newbie.

I'm a bit confused myself Maybe I'm misunderstanding you.

LDM does not interact in any way with the attachments system in VB posts. It provides a completely separate link (url) and document management system. So you can't use it directly to limit access to the attachments included within the vbulletin posts.

In effect, LDM allows you to create a structure of categories (in effect virtual filing cabinets) in which you place documents or pointers to documents. It then manages and controls access to these documents. But the documents are not 'vbulletin attachments'.