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Robyn Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 26 October 2005 Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Robyn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Please Help! Posted: 26 October 2005 at 11:09am
	Hi! i am not a computer wiz (sorry) so I guess my question will be laughable to most of you guys . I am working on my company's website. The guy before me, who was in charge of the website, made a colossal mess of the place. I have spent a couple of months getting the chaos into order. Anyway, to get to the point, the web site has two forum: a general (public) one and a private one. I managed to access and become the administrator of the general one. However, I can't seem to become the administrator of the private one. I need to change the password and username (we change them every 6 months because people have to pay to get into this forum). I tried do ".../default.asp" (that worked on the public one) but it's not working this time. PLEASE HELP ME! I am so frustrated. Thanks a zillion, Robyn

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 October 2005 at 11:47am
	Not sure how "../default.asp" would gain you admin access to a forum, if it does then you have some security issues. Is the forum system you are using Web Wiz Forums? If not then you are probably best asking this question to the forum makers. If you are using web wiz forums then which version are you using?
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Robyn Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 26 October 2005 Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Robyn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 October 2005 at 1:19pm
	Hi! Thank you so much for answering. Firs: Yes, I am using web wizforums (it would be pretty silly of me to post here if I wasn't, right? ). The version I have is 7.9a Lite (i also accessed this site by the link on the bottom of the forum pages). Second: when I entered "...default.asp" I reached the login page, where I could login as an administrator (the other guy left me the username and password). That's what I meant. Just accessing the page didn't make me the admin, but it got me to where I needed to sign in as the admin. The thing is, my employer and the people who use the site are all pretty computer illiterate, so they dumbed down the forum options. They even totally stopped using the admin option in both forums and everyone just posted messages as guests, to avoid the "mix-up" of registering and such. (I find this incredibly silly, but that's just me). As I said, I got the admin going in the public forum, now just the private one's a mess. So I think that they also must have somehow (if it's possible) deleted the admin option in the private forum. Is that possible? Thanks a lot for your help and please let me know what to do now? Robyn

dj air Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 05 April 2002 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3627	Post Options Post Reply Quote dj air Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 October 2005 at 7:04pm
	to gain access to the private one i take it you mean board system not actual forum (one forum like maillinglist forum)? if so you need to open the database and reset the username and password to the default ones found in a new downloaded version. you need to copy over the password and salt value.

Robyn Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 26 October 2005 Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Robyn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 October 2005 at 9:19am
	Hi again... Okay, I am confused. I'm so sorry for being dense, but how do I do all these things??? The forum is not a mailinglist. It is a posting forum, like the one here. The only difference is that you need to enter a username and password to access it and there are 3 different forums in it. Would it help if I posted the link to the forum? Thanks Robyn

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 October 2005 at 10:45am
	A link may help. But from reading your posts am I right in thinking that you have the admin username and password, but you do not have the passwords to enter? If this is the case to remove the password from a forum login into the admin section and under the page you setup forums on your can remove the password to the forum. If on the otherhand you have lost the admin username and password and you need to reset it, then you will need to download a new copy of the Access version of the forum, open the database, open the table tblComments, then copy and paste over the password and salt fields for the admin account from the new database to your own database. This will tehn reset the admin password.
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Robyn Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 26 October 2005 Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote Robyn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 October 2005 at 12:08pm
	I see I'm probably not being very clear. The prblem is not that I don't have the admin username and password (although i don't). The prblem is accessing a page where I need to enter them. There's no place to enter the admin username and password and thus enter the admin's account. By the way, sorry for being stupid but what is salt? I am posting the link to the website: www.thelearningsociety.com and then you go to the forum which is http://www.thelearningsociety.com/en/forum/index.aspx and then you enter the forum with the username (society) and password (forum21) we give to people who pay to use. But where would I put te admin username and password? You see, the reason I need all this is to change the password. How can I do that if I am not the admin? Sorry again for being such an idiot. I'm not really this stupid. I'm just new at this website thing. I really appreciate all your help. Robyn

Ali Bilgrami Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 14 April 2005 Location: Pakistan Status: Offline Points: 492	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ali Bilgrami Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 October 2005 at 12:18pm
	i think u shud go here http://www.thelearningsociety.com/en/forum_wiz/admin/defalt.asp it will take u to the admin login page which seems to me u r trying to reach...

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