You two have been so helpful!! I really appreciate it. Thank You.

I have installed the joomlaboard...
and added a link to it from the menu bar.

Now ... when I visit this link on the menu bar i get

QUOTE:
Notice:

There are no categories in the forum defined yet.
An administrator should create them first from the
Administration Panel of the Joomla! OS CMS.

Inform them and tell them to hurry up!

They will know what to do :)

HUmmm Uhhh "They will not know what to do" LOL

Thanks for so much information. I am very grateful.
My attempt to get to information on the site where i found the joomla board has been a circle of slight frustration. Once I was able to find what seemed to be the right place to go (and needed to be registered)..I never received the registration email to follow through.

Today, I am trying to get over a cold...so, I may put this all aside until I am feeeling better.

Thanks again and have a great weekend!

I believe that you need to configure everthing in the admin panel, i have not played with joomlaboard for many months, im sure themebot will have more informative advice

Get better soon

Yep. The admin panel in the backend is where you manage the forums and change settings. Please post your site to the showcase when it is ready. I'm interested to see it.

One more note on this. I have a live demo set up for phpBB. I can't believe that there have already been attempts by spambots to register. I have it set to administrator approval, but they still show up in the Memberlist, although they can't post. If it were an actual forum with active posting, I imagine there would be a lot of spam registrations I'd have to filter out.

One benefit of using Joomlaboard is that you don't get the spambots targeting your forum. I guess the analogy would be using a Mac computer and not having to worry as much about viruses.

Check out this video to see what some spambot software actually looks like:

http://www.botmaster.net/movies/XFull.htm

Stupid spambots, my registration is run through joomla so hopefully i dnt get spambots, as long as i disable my phpBB2 registration right

I don't know about the phpBB bridge since I haven't used it. Is there a way in the bridge to disable phpBB registration on the stand-alone site so all new users are registered via Joomla?

I found out that it isn't possible to disable registration without a mod. I asked about it on the phpBB forum. If you run into any problems, just ask on the phpBB forum. There seem to be a lot of mods for dealing with spambots.

My setup is like this:-

Register on joomla frontpage, bridge automatically registers you onto phpbb. However, i have not disable the phpbb register just redirected it to Joomla