Installing Drupal

Hi,

can you give me some advice? I'm using 4.3.0 and I need to have nodes with one or more files attached to them, I've been browsing the projects and the forums and looks like the Filestore and the Attached_file modules are solutions, which one should I use?

I also need per node permissions, I've tried the groups module even though my user taxonomy is quite short :P is there a simpler way to achieve per node permissions?

Thanks a lot, Drupal rules! :D

I'm experimenting with setting up a drupal web site, and would like to understand the distinction between stories and forum topics, so I can understand which to recommend creating for typical posts.

Both stories and forum topics seem to be things that have a title, body, and comments hanging off them. In fact, it seems that forum topics are just stories that happen to be created inside a forum (as opposed to stories that are created on the front page).

I'm having an issue with drupal reordering my thumbs within a node without me wanting it to.

In my code for a story or book page, I have the following order of images:

--Here's what's entered in:
image numbers: 74 71 76 65 66 45 46 75 42 73 44 52 53 72 49 62 63 78 51
--But what shows up on the page:
image numbers: 42 62 44 45 46 49 51 52 53 63 65 66 71 72 73 74 75 76 78

Has anybody tried installing Drupal 4.3 on Win2K/PHP 4.2.2/MSSQL using the PEAR ADO module to access the DB rather than the mssql functions? My hosting provider disables the php_mssql.dll module and insists that PHP users use ADO COM objects to access databases. I think I've managed to tweak the code enough to get the object classes and functions all playing nicely, only the first time it calls the query function I get an ADODB error that the connection object
$this->connection won't support the Execute(); Method for running SQL queries because the connection object is closed.

Does anyone know if there is a way to promote a comment to the front page? I've got one on my site that's better than the parent node, and I'd like for more people to see it ...

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I am new to Drupal after running Post Nuke for a while. One thing that baffles me is that Drupal seems to operate very fast when not loggin in as a user. As soon as I log in, everything slows down to a crawl...Running on a dedicated server with very small load right now. I am sure there must be some simple adjustment that I need to make. very frustrating. The site isn't really live yet, but it will be at www.dphoto1.com...