Ok so I'm new to drupal so I'll just throw that out there to begin with.
Here's my issue: I'm using a node reference field with a view to filter nodes. The view is a standard node type returning Node: Title linked to node and Node:Nid with some simple node:type filers and a relationship. When I set the Node Reference widget type to select list all the nodes are listed correctly, the problem I have is that when I change the widget type to Autocomplete text field nothing happens when I start typing data into the text box.
I'm using another autocomplete node reference on the same content type except that I'm not using a view to filter the node list and it works fine. I start typing the little ajax wheel starts spinning and it finds everything just fine. I don't even see the ajax loading circle on this field. Am I missing something? Should I be returning different fields from the view for the autocomplete to work?

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dhcp commented

I'm having the same problem...except that I'm not even using a View filter and still get no lookup.

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trevorbradley commented
Category: support » bug

I just hit this, and it was frustrating. Select lists would work fine, but autocompletes would not.

I eventually discovered that while I had set my edit permissions for the field, I had not set my view permissions for the field. The autocomplete was then completely non-functional on the edit side.

I suspect this is actually a bug - you should be able to edit an an autocomplete field without being able to view it.