Defaults do not seem to apply...

I've noticed the same problem in my installation.

Ditto. Same problem. I'll try and take a look, hopefully someone else finds a fix soon though. Nice module though.

I have the same problem. Worse yet, I uninstalled nodeaccess, but whenever I update a node as administrator, anonymous users get 'access denied' messages. This means that each time I 'update' something I actually take it offline. Please help.

I just downloaded the newest CVS from the Drupal-5 tree from the repo, and I'm not having the issues mentioned above where everything is getting access denied. :-/

I tried the CVS version after trying the last dev version. Same problem, can't access any nodes.

Thanks man. :). No worries. I'm a dev. too, I know how these things go.

I just tried it from CVS and it's working now. Yea!

I just installed the development snapshot http://drupal.org/node/119861 and it still has this problem. Even though I've set the defaults to everyone can see everything, nobody can see anything until I change grants on individual nodes. I'm working on a test site which I've upgraded from 4.7 to 5.1 here: http://deandi.com/dev

Even though I have nearly 400 nodes, the only one visible is the test node created for this module. If it makes any difference, I was previously using node privacy by role. When I tried installing the patched version for 5.1 I got the "Welcome to your new Drupal website" error and had to reset my node_access table- at that point I disabled and uninstalled npbr and installed nodeaccess. And here we are. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Never mind. I messed with the node_access table some more, found that I hadn't deleted npbr as I thought I had, and all is now well. Thanks for this great module!

I have the same problem, IF in the nodeaccess module I check "give node grants priority". Then my anonymous users can't see a thing except the Welcome page. I do have "View" checked for anonymous users in nodeaccess (both story and page).

If I uncheck "give node grants priority" then anonymous users see all the pages again.

The same problem. If I don't check the cheackbox "Give node grants priority" works fine.

Here I think is the problem. I'm just getting into this but if we look at nodeacess_nodeapi

function nodeaccess_nodeapi(&$node, $op) {
  global $user;

  switch ($op) {
    case 'insert':
    $grants = $user->nodeaccess_defaults ? $user->nodeaccess_defaults : variable_get('nodeaccess_'. $node->type, array());

    // add author grants
    // this is duplicated below in nodeaccess_node_access_records, probably should fix that huh
    $author_prefs = variable_get('nodeaccess_authors', array());
    $agrant = $author_prefs[$node->type];
    if ($agrant['grant_view'] || $agrant['grant_update'] || $agrant['grant_delete']) {
      if (variable_get('nodeaccess-priority', 0)) {
        $priority = 1;
      }
      else {
        $priority = 0;
      }
      $grants[] = array(
        'realm' => 'nodeaccess_author',
        'gid' => $node->uid,
        'grant_view' => $agrant['grant_view'],
        'grant_update' => $agrant['grant_update'],
        'grant_delete' => $agrant['grant_delete'],
        'priority' => $priority
      );
    }

    node_access_write_grants($node, $grants, 'nodeaccess_rid');
    break;
....

Notice that when a node is created ONLY the author permissions are set. Not the permissions for others.

To set permissions for the defaults for NON-AUTHORS we'd also need

$grants_others = array(
  'realm' => 'nodeaccess_rid',
  ....
);

node_access_write_grants($node, $grants_others, 'nodeaccess_rid');

@debtman7
To reproduce this just create a node and then look at the table node_access. Note that it only creates
rows with realm=nodeaccess_author and none for realm=nodeaccess_rid.

As an aside - I set http://drupal.org/node/141421 as a duplicate of this problem. If that's an error - we can unlink that.

rar.

I tested it and it works great. I like the fact that now you are no longer populating table node_access with every node as I could see that old method as one that could slow down a large site over time. Good work!