Steve I don't think that's going to be possible. Each forum post has to be associated with a userid so that you know who is posting what. Otherwise you'd just end up with a bunch of threads posted by 'anonymous'.

If you're in an intranet situation, I think a better option would be to look at a single-sign on or perhaps an automated signon. I'm not totally familiar with the options but there are authentication providers that integrate with Active Directory (if that's what your organisation uses). It should be (theoretically, I've never done it) possible to have the user automatically sign on to your site as soon as they arrive. That way they can start posting on the forum without a signon, but you are still tracking the posts, notifications, etc by user.

In order to do this the users still have to register at the site. But this could be done by using an active directory extension to create the user when a new user is created in Active DIrectory (and use an import for the rest). A long time ago I wrote an automatic user creation script for Active Directory, so I do know that is possible.

There would be a bit of work involved setting up an authentication provider and an automatic user creation, but if you did that you would have the best of both worlds - a forum where you didn't have to sign on, and a forum which actually worked properly in terms of identifying who wrote what.

AFAIK Active Forum by www.activeModules.com supports this feature (and will get included in future versions of DNN)

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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