Q: Giving Rights to Sections of the Forum

Hey, I'm not sure how to describe this but here it goes...

I have a friend who has a forum...

Its has 3 Sections... 1. Public 2/3. Private....

The problem is that he is unable to give me posting access to #3 but I have posting access #2.... How am I able to be able to post on both sections? He tried to give me operator rights and etc. and I get the message saying I don't have the rights and etc... If anyone can help my friend or let me know if you need more information... Thanks!

I tried to understand, but really couldnt get it. You may have to check your access masks

and u are using vbulletin right?

Hey, I'm not sure how to describe this but here it goes...

I have a friend who has a forum...

Its has 3 Sections... 1. Public 2/3. Private....

The problem is that he is unable to give me posting access to #3 but I have posting access #2.... How am I able to be able to post on both sections? He tried to give me operator rights and etc. and I get the message saying I don't have the rights and etc... If anyone can help my friend or let me know if you need more information... Thanks!

You can assign forum permissions via usergroup or on a member by member basis.

If I'm not mistaken, in both cases you need to allow access to the forum category, forum and subforum for any kind of posting access privileges to work. It's actually a bit of a PITA really because you then have to block access to all other subforums as allowing access to a category also allows access to all forums and subforums beneath it.