Need to Understand the terms and wording and meanings.

[finnbogg]

OK  There are catagories  inside those catagories are albums. Inside those albums are photos.  this much is understood.
1: In the middle of all this settings this and that the wording confusses me.
       Visitor:   non member or user who just comes to the site to see pics
       User: Someone who has a album in the Users Gallery
       Member: a user who is part of a group
       Group:  a group who has a catagory "birdwatchers" with albums in that catagory "birdwatchers"  and these albums are tittled  "Robins" "Sparrows" 2005 Birdwatcher Convention"

Now   I dont care about visitors.  I think visitor view only permitted photos an album
         Users have permissions over thier individial album
         Members have access to Groups things
         I need to know where permission start and end
   

I made a album password protected, and I gave a user member ship to that group and to that album
but when that member goes to that catagory and to the albums section of that catagory, the album I password protected is missing and I see no place to input a password for that user.
Can I password protect a catagory
to me a group would be a catagory.

Do you see my confussion?

[Joachim Müller]

Can I password protect a catagory

no, pasword-protection works on a per-album basis, as well as group-membership based access.

[finnbogg]

then why is it ,,, in album properties it asks me who can view  me only, users only, users with in a group etc etc and under that  it asks what password I want to create for that album

[Nibbler]

You can set an album password and you can restrict who can see that album based on their group. Groups and categories are completely unrelated.

[finnbogg]

this forum is to slow for me to figure this out
can anyone instant message me at yahoo messenger  my screenname is   finnbogg1
I want certain people to see only certain albums and certain people to see all albums
though groups and catagories have nothing to do with each other. I can title a catagory  the same as the group and put only albums in that catagory. can I not?
  Example This is what I want to do.
  Catagory     Bird Watchers

there are 3 users in this group           Tina/Pam/Joe

There are 4 albums under this catagory          Tinas Album/Pams Album/Joes Album/Convention Album

Any one can see inside Tina and Pams and Joes and the Convention
But  only tina can add to tinas album
Pam only to pams album
Joes only in Joes album
but pam tina and joe can add to the convention album

[Nibbler]

You can't set permissions based on individual members, only groups of members. If you want users to have their own albums then use user galleries.

[finnbogg]

then what good are catagories?
I need some examples
   We go to vegas each year
  Catagory    Vegas   
Albums:     Vegas 2005  Vegas 2006 Vegas 2007
Catagory  Family reunion
Albums     FR 2005   FR2006

what good is this site if indivduals cant come and pick and choose what albums they can add to.

I need some examples