Topic: User login and pop/imap settings help

[MSmith]

Looking at another thread, it's nice of you to take the time to help that fellow with his router problem.  You were very patient.  Now then ...

I must be becoming a pest....

Since you brought it up:

1.  A subject line of "HELLLLP" is not very informative.

2.  Saying there's a problem and then finding out it was a typo on your part is slightly annoying.

3.  Not learning to search these forums for answers (for example, password strength has been asked and answered many times) is more than slightly annoying.

That all being said, I think the only way to solve your user password issue from outside the LAN is to have the user authenticate to the server via PPTP, thus putting the user on the LAN; then he/she can access the user panel.

I too ran into the avatar permissions problem and have not solved it, but then again have not tried especially hard.  Everything else about phpBB works great.

[WA-Naemr]

Thank you, i was afraid of that, not shure if i want ppl on the network via vpn yet..     and i wish i could search, but i was getting timed out every time i tryed, even with very explicit searches that there was a 1 in 200 chance there was anything in any post even remotly like it,    i suppose i am doomed to slowly search the forums by hand     thank you for the passowrd help, and i will keep you updated on what i find for avatars



and when using third party pop3/imap programs (outlook, outlook express, mozilla thunderbird) is there any way to set the server, so i can use standard imap/pop3 instead of secure imaps/pop3s ?

Looking at another thread, it's nice of you to take the time to help that fellow with his router problem. You were very patient. Now then ...

Thank you, i hope to be of benifit to more ppl on these boards in the future    




Naemr

[WA-Naemr]

Also, is there any way to set it so i can use Numbers and CAPITAL letters when creating users/ibays?   mainly users,



Thanks




Naemr

[NickCritten]

In *nix you use chown to change the ower and chmod to change the permissions.


The folder for the avatars should already have its owner group set to set to www (thats apache by the way) to check, cd to the parent folder and do a ls -l

To change the permission on a specific folder to 777, you would do chmod 777 images

For more info on any CLI command, either do a <cmd> --help for quick help or man <cmd> for the full manual.

Also if you are asking Linux (as opposed to SME-only) questions, you are much better off searching google for the answer... There are lots of Linux for Newbies website out there (I should know, I'm still wet behind the ears myself!