Registering your Account

Each person who wants to post in a public discussion forum needs to register a special "discussions" account. This can be done automatically by clicking the Register button that appears at the top of the discussions page.

If you are using a private discussion forum, your NetWinder account is automatically used for your discussion account; you do not need to register a discussion account in that case.

NOTE: If you are logged into your NetWinder using the administrator account, httpd, you should not register a discussions account. You should shut down your web browser and restart it, logging in using a standard user account first.

The administrator has special privileges to move and delete messages from the forums, but isn't expected to post messages without using a "normal" user account.

The user registration page contains the following fields, which you need to fill in:

When you have finished entering all the above information, click the Submit button and your account will be created. You can then proceed to post messages in your favourite discussion forums.