making a forum READ ONLU

[Raul7]

hello guys, i have a strange problem, i need to make a certain forum READ only to some users who dont behave, now when i create a user group and make the changes required, and add a user , they can NOT see any of the forum, it keep getting access denied, all i did was i created a user group based on REGISTERED users, called the group Reg-Readonly, went the forum i would like them to have read only, changed the setting for that user group, but if it doesnt seem to work, if a user is NOT placed in Registered user group, they cant see anything, any idea?
Thanks

[tort]

Why dont you just add the forum, and then go into into forum permissions and give access to specific groups, and by default everyone else is denied? I guess I dont really understand your question.

[Raul7]

hi, thats the problem, lets say i got 2 user group REG and REG-READ ONLY, i want REG to have access, but REG-READ, only be able to READ and not reply, REG group is made by default, and there are 8000 users there, to create REG-READ, i went to usergroup managers, add a new group, created a group based on REG, changed the name to REG-ONLY, set the permission based on REG, and group was made, now i clicked on forum permissions, went to the forum that i want REG-READ to only have READ permission, click on REG-READ usergroup changed the settings, can view forum is YES, the rest are all NO for that forum ONLY, now, when i put a user in REG-READ user group,they can NOT see any forum, when i put them in REG and REG-READ, everything is open, i think its because REG takes over ... i am not sure what else i can do .. thanks for the help

[tort]

Originally Posted by Raul7

hi, thats the problem, lets say i got 2 user group REG and REG-READ ONLY, i want REG to have access, but REG-READ, only be able to READ and not reply, REG group is made by default, and there are 8000 users there, to create REG-READ, i went to usergroup managers, add a new group, created a group based on REG, changed the name to REG-ONLY, set the permission based on REG, and group was made, now i clicked on forum permissions, went to the forum that i want REG-READ to only have READ permission, click on REG-READ usergroup changed the settings, can view forum is YES, the rest are all NO for that forum ONLY, now, when i put a user in REG-READ user group,they can NOT see any forum, when i put them in REG and REG-READ, everything is open, i think its because REG takes over ... i am not sure what else i can do .. thanks for the help

Oh that has to do with the hiearchy of permissions, there is a way to set it to where the primary usergroup permissions do not permeate into the the secondary....Maybe someone else can shed some light on the subject.