[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by calumn

Hello.

First of all I have to say this is an amazing plugin, but I am having trouble with the permissions.

I want to add a links directory to my forum so that registered users can add their links but guests can only browse and view the directory.

I tried setting this but at first no-one could submit links so I changed the permissions and now the right people can but they can also submit downloads.

How can I make it so that they can only submit links but not downloads?

Thanks
Calum

You can turn off submission of urls that point to remote downloads using the LDM admin setting *allow_remote_downloads*. This is a general setting, not a per-usergroup permission, so you will block this feature for everyone.

Bear in mind that, for LDM, 'download' = something with a filetype that appears in the vbulletin attachment table. LDM manages the transfer of these downloads to keep the location hidden. If the url ends with a filetype that is not in the table, then LDM doesn't care, because it doesn't handle the transfer - it just triggers a browser redirect to get the url.