I have a WSS installation with quite a few sites and subsites. I recently enabled forms-based authentication and allowed the forms-users access to one sub-site of a single site. That works fine – the only problem is that a separate site shows up in the top bar and is the only one that shows up. I checked all the permissions and I can't find any reference to this user in the site nor it's subsites (shouldn't exist because I just created the user). Trying to access these sites as this user gives me access denied. The only thing I can think of is that some portion of the subsites (document libraries etc) or a specific file has some strange permissions for everyone… I just don't know how to programmatically check the effective permissions on all documents; doing it by hand is just not feasible. Any ideas?
User was granted access to Subsite 1 of Site A. In the top bar, they only see Site B.
Best Answer
That doesn't sound like a permissions problem (if they are being given access denied when they try to access Site B, then all is working as it should be). It sounds like you need to modify the navigation (information on how to do that here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA101191001033.aspx)