I have read the FAQ about Forum permission but it differs so much from my previous experience I could do with a little help in my use case if possible.

In my case I want to restrict access to our Support Forum to only a subset of the membership. Anyone not in this Support subset can see the forum in the board listing, but cannot see any of the topics or discussions - in effect this is a locked forum.

Secondly I have installed the Messaging plugin and also want to restrict use of this to a subset of the membership.

If I can have some help it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Alistair