[Snowball1]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Do you only allow members to use the search (usergroup manager > can search forums set to no for all non-member groups)? Do you have a minimum time between searches set so it can't get hammered (vboptions > searching)? Are you using default searching for your site or did you add something?

thanks very much for your help. I was allowing unregistered users to search the forum any number of time they want but now I have disabled the searching option for unregistered users. I have set a minimum time between searches to 3mins. I am using the default searching.