SharePoint- user Contribute permission still not able to edit page

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I have a site at http://moss/sites/Electronics/Laptop

I have given users contribute permission on laptop site but still when they try to edit the page they are getting access denied, I have checked the permission level and all permissions are fine bt still users are not able to edit page.

I gave them read permissions on Electronics site and now they are able to edit the pages. My question is why we need to give them read permission on the top level site? What we don't want users to go to the top level site at all and want them to have an access on subsite only? Any idea?

Thanks,

Best Answer

Make sure you understand your sites and site collections - this isn't easy because the "top level site" in a site collection is called / and child sites automatically inherit permissions if you don't specify otherwise. Here's a diagram I made of permissions inheritance in Sharepoint 2007: Sharepoint Permission Inheritance

How the hell do Sharepoint Permissions Work?
You should also make sure you look at the permission levels you have set at the site level and the pages/document library level - make sure Contribute includes the abilities you require.

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Can you try this?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262811.aspx

stsadm -o setsitelock 

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   -lock {none | noadditions | readonly | noaccess}

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Here is an MSDN forums topic that is very similar to yours. Basically, the result was that MS says SharePoint does a checkout/checkin once the form is submitted, which requires Edit permissions. A further post by Clayton Cobb outlines a possible workaround for the problem.

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