Permissions help, please.

[Lynn]

I have created a discussion web within a subweb and I had the wizard create
it as registered users only. FP then shows me in the web self registration
form an instruction "change the web permissions. Make the permissions unique
for this web". That part is easy. It then says "set the End User Access
Control so that only registered users may enter." I have searched FP help,
the Knowledge Base, I have read the total help file in permissions
administration. I have been through every single page within the server
administration, I have even looked through books on FP 2000 (not written by
Microsoft) and I can find absolutely nothing that explains how to set this
discussion web so that only registered users may enter. Please help.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Your site must be hosted on a Unix/Linux Server in order for the Self
Registration form to work, as it doesn't work on Windows IIS servers. So you
must be setting this up directly on the live server.

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[Lynn]

Thomas, thanks, but I am on a Linux server, and I am trying to set my
permissions live. That is not the problem.
I cannot find any documentation anywhere relating to setting the End User
Access Control so that only registered users may enter. How do you do that?
There is nothing in the administration pages to help me.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Have you checked with your host to see if you have access to this function?

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

Lynn,

See if this helps:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301954&Product=fp2002#10

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[Lynn]

Thomas - I can set my permissions. That is not the problem! Again, I
repeat -
I cannot find any documentation anywhere relating to "setting the End User
Access Control so that only registered users may enter". I have no idea
what that requires me to do.
Where do I find anything in writing that relates to the message on the web
self registration form that explains what End User Access Control is? and
how do I set it?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Lynn,

So far I see no reference to "setting the End User Access Control" under
FP2002 help or when I create the Registration form or in the MS
Knowledgebase.

Suggest you contact your host to see if they can provide any help or wait
for someone else to reply that is hosted on Unix/Linux and has this working.

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

Lynn,

Are you attempting to set this up directly on the live site (Linux server)?
Have check with your host to see if they allow this?

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[Lynn]

Yes, I am and doing this live and when I ask my host tech support they just
point me back to the front page extensions and the administration page.

Lynn

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Ok, you will have to wait for someone else to reply that has used this
function under Unix/Linux.

However, I am not sure that the Registration Form was intended to be use in
conjunction with the FP user access function, since the Registration Form
has been around, unchanged from at least FP98, so the issue may be that you
need to use one or the other to control access, but not both. If you use the
FP extensions to control access, then you have to add users and logins,
where as with the Registration Form, the users add themselves, which
personally I don't see as a viable solution, since anyone can signup without
limitations.

I work only on Windows, and prefer to use ASP/Access to handle any type of
user access requirement, instead of the FP extensions to control user
access, unless I want to provide users with limited FP access.

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[Guest]

Hi Lynn

If you are developing on windows and publishing to linux, you need to first open the remote site using frontpage (in FP2003, open the discussion subsite; when you select the website tab, a link to open the remote site in FP will appear at the bottom of the screen). After you open the remote site using frontpage, the 'server' menu option under 'tools' should be enabled. From there, you can select 'permissions...', which will open a web browser that allows you to change the permissions on the subsite. You'll have to go to 'change permissions' and select 'use unique permissions for this website', then go to 'change anonymous access settings' and set 'anonymous access is:' to 'off'

I hope this helps

- Wojo