Hi Chip… I discovered the problem… In the posts edit->screen option , the discussion module was not ticked by default and as such was not appearing .. Whilst there was a comments module I did not realise that there was a separate discussions module. Once that was ticked and visible I could then tick comments on …
Incidentally how does the Network Administrator disable comments? Are you suggesting that can be done Network wide? I looked in the Network dashboard but there are no settings there ..just general domain and domain mapping settings
thanks