Registration disable

In Permissions Registration area there are two options:

"Allow banned e-mail addresses"
"Allow duplicate e-mail addresses"

I don't see an option there to turn off registration completely, that is, to allow someone to post freely without registering.

Like Frank has said, Admin-Permissions:
Guests may post topics
Allow guests (not registered users) to post new topics.  yes no

Now to remove the top navigation links, like Register:
/include/functions.php - function generate_navlinks()

You'll have to manually edit the php-file (and no, don't change the index.html-file).

I think you're trying to do too much.  Just logon as an administrator, click 'Admin', 'Permissions', and next to 'Guest' set the 4 radio buttons to 'Yes'.

I took Chacmool's advice and manaully removed the "Register" and "Login" links (located in the top header area). So, this particular job does not appear to be an option in the 'Admin'... area. So, to be consistent and not have the Register option appear anywhere, I need to go through most of the other PHP pages and remove these options manually, as well. Okay, that's doable.

BUT when I downloaded 'index.php' and tried to manully edit out "Register" and "Login", I could not find these links... When I viewed the source online instead, the links were clearly present... So, I edited from the source and uploaded... I tried a post before lunch and it worked... but now I tried a post and it doesn't work. The message says I haven't registered... And when I tried a search, it told me I wasn't registered. In the Guest section of the Admin module, I have "Guests may use search" checked as "Yes" so why must I register?

Correction, I posted Sugar Pie but the body of the message is missing. So, the post worked partially.

Did I screw up the script by editing the source version?

I'm referring to the forum located at,

http://www.homesteadhelpers.com/forums/index.php

Thanks,
Toby.

That makes sense.

But recently I watched a forum based on Matt's WWWBoard go from regular use to no use... presumably because they upgraded to a board with registration. (They upgraded because they were tired of dealing with spammers... which is what you have to deal with if you don't have registration, I know.)

With PunBB even if you don't actually have to register, the mere presence of the word register might make some potential posters think they MUST register to post, so I would prefer to remove it. But I have to think more about this now...

Thanks.