Teamsite Workarea access

Ken3992927

Hi I'm new to teamsite and having trouble setting up the user read access for our Teamsite projects.

Issue 1
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Teamsite 6.5 SP 3
Windows Server 2003

There are 10 branches, with a workarea in each branch, owner of branch and workarea is administrator. I want to add a new group called Editors (the users in this group has the role of Editor) that can access these workareas to view the file but no modify rights.

Currently when a member of Editor logs in, they can see the workarea but it is grayed out. Is there anyway to grant read access? I've tried granting Read access to the folder via the file system but that get removed as soon as I hit apply.

The settings for security in iw.cfg are as follows.
branch_security=false
workarea_security=false


Issue 2
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Teamsite 6.7.1 SP1
Windows Server 2003 R2

I have 2 workareas in the same branch, WorkA and WorkB, and 2 groups GroupA and GroupB. I want workarea WorkA to be accessible only by Admin and GroupA and WorkB by Admin and GroupB.

I've altered the group owners and made it private but GroupA can still access WorkB and vice versa. I've changed to iw.cfg to turn branch and work security on.

I've been spending most of the day reading posts and trying different things but still getting nowhere. Thanks for any pointers on these issues.

Ken3992927

I've come to a solution for issue 1 but am not sure if this is the recommended method. First grant group ownership to Editor group, then remove all but Read permission for the group in the workarea.