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I am involved in a Homeowners Association that is using SharePoint as our web pages.  We would like to allow internet access to the home page, but not allow access to other pages.  I understand permissions, but do not want anyone to be able to manipulate anything on the home page.  I would certainly appreciate any guidance here.

I'm not sure I see the problem. Set yourself up as the only one who has permission (Full Control) of the site. Everyone else has view only. Create subsites with individual permissions, not inheriting from the parent.

Am I missing something?

Mark
EndUserSharePoint.com

Mark,

Thanks for the reply.  I am SO new to this and am not a designer.  I am an ex-USAF fighter jock who was nominated to create this site.  I am learning as I go and through help like yours, I hope to get it right.  I went to your website and frankly was quite impressed.  Again, thanks for your guidance.

 > I ... was nominated to create this site.

Yes, that's pretty typical. I usually say you were 'volunteered' for the position. I wrote a post a little while back that you might find interesting: SharePoint 2007: Types of Users.

Good luck on your project.
Mark
EndUserSharePoint.com

Hi Mark

what if i would like to do the reverse?

create a sub site, but not allow the user access to the home page?

I was close. I know how to set the permissions, and can give access to http://www.mysite.com\subsite.htm, but the bread crumb trail remains onthe top and if anyone clever enough just drops the subsite.htm can get to the homepage.

any Suggestions?

Thanks

Mark J

Jaws1994:

Hi Mark

what if i would like to do the reverse?

create a sub site, but not allow the user access to the home page?

I was close. I know how to set the permissions, and can give access to http://www.mysite.com\subsite.htm, but the bread crumb trail remains onthe top and if anyone clever enough just drops the subsite.htm can get to the homepage.

any Suggestions?

Thanks

Mark J

Having the users be able to see the bread crumb should be your only problem, really. For example, you want user1 and user2 to view http://site/subsite1, but you only want user1 to be able to view http://site. Add user1 to view http://site and then after creating subsite1, add user1 and user2 to the subsite1 site. Give the subsite1 url to user2, and user2 will only be able to view subsite1, even if user2 knows the correct url to any page on http://site/

thanks coop

how do i rid the subsite of the breadcrumbs though?

i cant find the default.aspx page to modify it

thanks again

mark

That is actually a humorous question to me, because "everyone and their brother" had been wanting SharePoint to have breadcrumb functionality built-in. Now that it does, you want to get rid of it

Now, as for removing the breadcrumbs....you will probably have to edit the master pages for this to work. All the SharePoint pages are not really full web pages at all. They are built on the fly using different settings from different files.
You will need to use Microsoft SharePoint Designer to edit the files. Honestly, I would stay away from doing so if at all possible (especially if you don't know what you are doing). This is very dangerous and can totally miss-up your environment. Also, if you remove breadcrumbs from the master page, you will be removing it from all pages (including other sites).

If it were me, I might just live with the breadcrumbs being there. I know it is what the security professionals would call "information leakage", but in this kind of area, I personally wouldn't fret it.

I dont see what the problem with the breadcrumb trail being there??? If user1 has access to http://site and http://site/subsite1 and user2 has access to only http://site/subsite1 then even though user2 can see the breadcrumb trail, if he clicks on the link to http://site it will prompt him for a username and password which he cannot get into...

But if you really do not want the breadcrumb trail there, then your only way to get rid of it is what coop said. Open the master page in SharePoint Designer, take the breadcrumb placeholder (<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb" runat="server"/>) out and then remember to put it in with the rest of the hidden placeholders ( located near the bottom)...

You should do some research on editing master pages before you attempt this... What I suggest is, opening default.master (or whatever master page you are using) and save it as a new name. Then edit the renamed page. Then you can change your master page in the settings of your SharePoint site.