Is it possible at all to let guests view the main board of a forum, without giving permission to post?
Not sure about the guest settings, but access to the forum is just not possible without logging in.
Thanks in advance for any hints.
Pretty sure that's the default setting, provided you "allow guests to view the forum" and remove any permission that allows guests to post.
the default setting is to allow guests to view, but not post. yes.
If you changed this and now guests can not even view -- then you have to turn guest browsing back ON...
https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:Features_and_Options
Or simple see my post and if you understand English it will be easy job to understand how to fix https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=572076.msg4048102#msg4048102
That's not what the op asked to do
Thank you Kindred, that was it. Don't know why I could not find this setting.