Do you mean that it should be like:
$boarddir = 'W:/www/NEW_Eventful_holidays/forum';
$sourcedir = 'W:/www/NEW_Eventful_holidays/forum/Sources';
in the top joomla and SMF Settings.php files?

The "home/eventful/public_html/forum/" was what I put into the Joomla-SMF component install area - mistake I think, but of course now I cannot see any file with that in? Not in Settings.php files, couldn't find anything in the database?

Yes, but because of the error, I cannot get into Joomla to change it. I can only access the Joomla files through the Windows interface. That is why I was hoping the "Components>Joomla-SMF Forum> Istallation" setting was for example in the Configuration.php file.

I got mixed up in the setting changes when moving from my local server to host, so now I am backtracking by trying to reset my local one working. Maybe, I thought I did the wrong thing by preparing my local site path settings then down loading it. I think I should have downloaded it then made the path setting changes. So, anyway, since I am mixed up I am working on getting the local one working.

I am getting:

Warning: main(home/eventful/public_html/forum/SSI.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in W:\www\NEW_Eventful_holidays\index.php on line 59

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'home/eventful/public_html/forum/SSI.php' (include_path='.;\usr\local\PHP\includes;w:/www/mambo45') in W:\www\NEW_Eventful_holidays\index.php on line 59

The "home/eventful/public_html/forum" path is for the host, so I am trying to change it back to "W:\www\New_Eventful_holidays\forum". What I have done is change the $boarddir  and $sourcedir lines of code in the Configuration.php files in the root and in the forum root. So they are like this:
$boarddir = 'W:\www\New_Eventful_holidays\forum';
$sourcedir = 'W:\www\New_Eventful_holidays\forum\Sources';

I have looked and looked but cannot find any other files with "home/eventful/public_html/forum/" to change. After my changes I still get the error message above. Anyone got an idea how I can fix this issue?

Trying your suggestion:

Now I am getting:
Warning: main(home/xxxx/public_html/forumforum/SSI.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxxx/public_html/index.php on line 59

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'home/xxxx/public_html/forumforum/SSI.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xxxx/public_html/index.php on line 59

See how there is a double "forumforum" Lookined through different files, just cannot see where I have added the extra forum, manybe...

I did change the Components>Joomla-SMF Forum> Istallation[/b]
to set the SMF Absolute Path although it did give me an ERROR flag when I saved it and now I am locked out of my local with an error message as well. When the Instalation setting is changed, any idea of where in the code that is affected, so I can work on adjusting it back from the code, outside of Joomla itself?

Got JSMF running on my local test site and trying to now get the site online.

I got this error:
.............................
Warning: main(W:/www/NEW_Eventful_holidays/forum/SSI.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/eventful/public_html/index.php on line 59

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'W:/www/NEW_Eventful_holidays/forum/SSI.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/eventful/public_html/index.php on line 59
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I am a newbe at php...
problem I though was that it was searching in a local drive i.e.
W:/www/NEW_Eventful_holidays

tried changing settings in In forum>settings.php:
FROM
$boardurl = 'http://localhost:85/NEW_Eventful_holidays/forum';      #
TO
$boardurl = 'http://www.eventfulholidays.com/forum';

AND FROM
$boarddir = 'W:\\www\\NEW_Eventful_holidays\\forum';
$sourcedir = 'W:\\www\\NEW_Eventful_holidays\\forum/Sources';
TO
$boarddir = '/home/eventful/public_html/forum';
$sourcedir = '/home/eventful/public_html/forum/Sources';

The code I put in is similar to the top level Configuation settings that work, so not sure what is going wrong.

Any help much appreciated.

Joomla 1.0.11 SMF 1.0.8 CB 1.0.1

Just reading the manual - looks like I need the SMF 1.1 series. Ill try again after I have changed to that version. That is the right approach I presume?

Yes, works now with Joomla 1.0.11 and SMF1.1rc2

Trying to install by following the manula instructions. Got the following errors when tried to patch SMF source files? (see error1.jpg attached)


After that I tied manually dropping in the index.php file, and I installed the Joomla mods.

Didn't do anything with the smf plug ins because not sure waht to do with them.

After that I tied manually dropping in the index.php file, and I installed the Joomla mods.

Didn't do anything with the smf plug ins because not sure waht to do with them. Are they SMF plug ins?

Then I tested starting the site, and got this? (see error2.jpg attached)

Thanks for any help.

If I use Joomla-SMF do I need any other bridges, such as "smf_1-1-rc3_joomla_1-1-6_bridge.zip" provided by SMF?-

Great. Good work. When will V2.1 be out approximately?

When in the installation istructions "Uninstall all previous versions of modules/mambots/plugins" do you mean those realted to JSMF or are you saying that ALL modules/mambots/plugins need to be deleted out of Joomla?

partial sharing of users across 2 sites?

I want to have 2 sites with partial sharing of users.
Site 1 will have a number of groups, created by JALC.
Site 2 will have its own users, but I also want to use "one" of the user groups from site 1. Is this somethign that is possible with SMF and JSMFv2.0 or might it be in V2.1?