Hello,

I am encountering severe problems configuring PHPbb.

First, I would like to disable CAPTCHA as the board will be behind a firewall, and for internal use only.  I have disabled it in the "CAPTCHA module settings," but the CAPTCHA still appears and is required to register.

Secondly, I have set "Account Activation" to "none," but manual activations are still required by admin.

Third, I have been around and around trying to set up LDAP.  By reading all the posts I could find, I discovered the trick of creating a PHPBB account with the same name as an AD account, setting that account to "Founder," and THEN configuring LDAP.  The settings save, (and it fails if I intentionally use the wrong password) but I am unable to login with any AD account other than the one I used to save the setting.

Is there some fundamental step I am missing to have so many seemingly glaring issues?

Thanks.