Ned Slider wrote: <big snip> > Can you (or anyone) point me to any good examples of phpBB forum > deployments where I could register to get a feel for it's end-user > features/usability? (I'm already familiar with some SMF based forums and > it certainly meets end user requirements). > hmm, why not using the forums at the source : http://www.phpbb.com/support/forums/ ;-) Regarding data migration from one system to the other , Guillaume (the fedora guy who was behind the initial request for the fr.centos.org website) is willing to help : he wrote a script to migrate from xoops (does that ring a bell ? :D) to punbb for the http://www.fedora-fr.org website/forum . I told him that because fluxbb (successor of punbb) doesn't have (yet, but on the roadmap) a ldap auth feature, it could be abandoned .. but he said that if that was needed he can have a look to write the ldap_auth_hook for fluxbb . It seems that because of the license, SMF can be removed from the forum candidates list ? -- - Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..."