Problem with active topics

Access was created as a desktop flat file database system and never intended as a web backend.

SQL Server is much faster and more scalable and can be used for databases on almost any size and no limit on the number of connections.

If you have SQL server available use that.

Also to correct your host all windows servers when being installed have to be set to a locale so there would be an LCID number for that locale.

IT WORKS!!!!!!

I think I read about this somewhere but it did not sink in, so I will say it for anyone who did what I did. YES, what I did to prevent active topics from working correctly.

Our forum is private, so I sent all forums (37 in all) with a default access setting to Private Groups only for everything.

Then I created groups and gave each group access as they are allowed. I did not create a "guest" permission group because the default forum settings would block their access.

It also blocks the active topics from working.

I set the default forum access controls to "All Users" for the forum access control. All the rest stayed at "group permission". I then created a group permission for "guest" in each forum, leaving all access options blank.

Funny I did not figure this out until after I Donated, 

Now I need to search again and see if I can stop guest from seeing the topic titles in active topic views. If not, I can live with it.

My webhost never did find a LCID setting. He has a locale setting which is set to United States, but the 1033 number is not shown in  the GUI.

Here is great link that will help.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/e n-us/iisref/htm/SettingtheLocaleIdentifierLCID.asp