duh, ok, st$p$d question.

you just need to make the link to URL then you can choose, instead of linking to the component.

/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26
(copy of the link that linking to the component would produce)

 not /smfforumpath/

otherwise loging out of SMF doesn't log you out of joomla.
and then you can't log out of joomla (it just takes you to the forum page when you try). Bizzarly it was only logging out of joomla when i then logged back into smf, and it then logged straight out of both upon hitting the loggin button.

is there a recognized way of making the forum come up in a new window (or tab for firefox)?

joomla menu components often have the "on click open" choice, but the joomla-smf component doesn't, and in it's settings there is only wrapped or unwrapped.

As the SMF homepage has been down for the last few hours, and i'd really like to sort my site out with the new SMF 1.1 rc before i go away for the weekend...

Does anyone  know any safe mirrors or the site itself, or just the downloads?

aha, i'd been having that problem, your post gave me the idea to search mamboforge directly, the link there works, ta :

http://mamboforge.net/frs/?group_id=1104&release_id=5569



only problem now is the SMF homepage itself seems to be down, so i can't get the new 1.1 RC release

I'm having that problem too

the download link doesn't work, it's jsut brining up a blank page.

in /administrator/components/com_smf/admin.smf.php

there are 3 statements begining with :

if ($rdf->getRDF($url, 30))

that do latest version checking, anouncments and update feeds.

these are causing the mambo-smf config to lock up with no error message on my  remote server, everythings fine testing locally. i can only assume it's either file permissions or outgoing access has been blocked from the server for security.

when it happens it usually locks up the admin control pannel for a few minutes before letting me log back in again.

took a while to track that down, all seems to be working now it's comented out:(