By therobyouknow on

Many of my phpbb users postings appear as written by 'Anonymous' but some postings retained the user.

I want to understand why this is happening and why not all the postings have the correct user.

I know it has been talked about here but there is not solution.

http://drupal.org/node/92166

Advice?

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therobyouknow commented

I think it might be the user permissions, because the users that are migrated across are those with basic permissions who have no access to private forums on the phpbb. It looks like none of those with such permissions are migrated, and therefore appear as Anonymous in their postings on the migrated forum.

Solution?
1) In phpbb, make all forums open access and make all users have the same basic permissions. But before doing this take the forum off line so that the private forums cannot be read: either disable it in the phpbb admin control panel or just delete the phpbb code leaving the raw mysql database tables.
2) Then migrate the phpbb forum using phpbb2drupal
3) Then use one of the access restiction methods in http://drupal.org/node/111576 to restrict access to the forums as desired, preferable forum_access

I don't know yet whether this is gonna work - I am at my day job at the moment so can't spend time on it but I'll let you know how I get on over the next few days.

Always like to come up with solutions to my own problems and help others...

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therobyouknow commented

yes the solution above to my own problem worked.

All I had to do was make every forum group public.

I also need to 'enable all views' for anonymous users/guests so that they can see the replies to forum posts. This is probably not precise enough but will do until I understand the views system better. It may reveal content that I do not wish anonymous guests to see but I have yet to discover this.