[EeeZee]

I need some advice. First, DownloadsII is an excellent mod. No doubt about it. Been using it for perhaps a year without incident, problem, or frustration.

Backgound: Just updated to vB 3.8.1 PL1, and DownloadsII 5.1.0.

Situation: The vB board is a subscription service and "unregistered subscribers" are allowed but their access is quite limited. There are a number of downloads accessible to paid subscribers and they getting them without any problem. There is one forum that offers "free downloads" to "registered guests" (meaning unpaid) and that is all they are supposed have access to.

I belive that before the upgrades/updates everying was working OK in terms of the paid people were permitted to download everything -- while the unpaid ones (registered guests) had access to only two files in a separate forum. But, and importantly, I have responsibility for keeping the vB running with others have access with administrator privileges (not a good thing but an unfortunate fact of life).

Right now, I can not limit the "registered guests" to downloading just those two files set aside in a separate forum. Access to only those files is what they should have -- no downloads in other forums and no attachment downloads. I have tried all combinations of rights for downloading attachments and/or persmissions to downloading files (in the DownloadsII section of the user group permissions) but can not get it set as needed.

I also humbly admit that I am at the point of not being able to see for forest for the trees.

If you are willing to help lead this poor soul out of the gloom of darkness I would be glad to (privately) provide you your own administrator UN and PW. My bet is I am doing something really stoooopid!

Thanks for your understanding and assistance.

I need help!

Randy

To possibly clarify my earlier question posted three days ago and thus far unanswered: As far as I can see, the "allow downloads" permission is defaulted to ALL forums. Is there a way to override the default group download permissions to allow a certain user group download privileges in one or more particular forum?