SharePoint-Users Contribute permissions still not able to edit

Question

I have a site at http://moss/sites/Electronics/Laptop

I have given users contribute permission on laptop site but still when they try to edit the page they are getting access denied, I have checked the permission level and all permissions are fine bt still users are not able to edit page.

I gave them read permissions on Electronics site and now they are able to edit the pages. My question is why we need to give them read permission on the top level site? What we don't want users to go to the top level site at all and want them to have an access on subsite only? Any idea?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Does the user have any access to the child site before you granted access on the parent? If not, this is likely because you're using some reference to list data from the parent in the child. If the user has no access to the parent and the child is trying to access that data, it will fail and the user will get access denied regardless of their permissions on child.

If they had access but just couldn't edit, this could be a completely different problem but it isn't typical out-of-box behavior. I would still be suspicious that something from parent is being used in child to cause this contention.