Allow participants to join before host

[userjhona1]

On My settings, participants are allowed to join before the host, and also on our account management but all participants were not allowed unless I'm in. What am I missing here?

Also, this has worked for me before and I haven't made any adjustments so I'm confused about what happened.

Thanks

[Ray_Harwood · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @userjhona1.

Refer to this Zoom Support article for details:

https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0060501

There are a few things that must be done:

1. The Passcode must be enabled and assigned to the meeting.
2. Waiting Room must be disabled for the meeting in the meeting setup.
3. Join Before Host must be enabled.

 Here’s a sample meeting setup – see the highlighted areas:

[MGSR]

Hi @userjhona1!

Given the time elapsed since we last heard from you, I've taken the liberty of marking the provided answer as the solution.

If you need further assistance, please let us know.

Have a fantastic day!

[CRCHS]

After a bunch of Trial/Error, my final solution to this issue was the following settings, which seemed to have escaped the Zoom Support folks.  

- In order for this to work (i.e. no waiting) the following have to be set:

1. Waiting Room:   OFF
2. Meeting Passcode: ON
3. Personal Meeting ID:  ON
4. Embed Passcode in Invite Link:   ON
5. Allow Participants to join before Host:   ON

Zoom Support neglected to provide instruction on #2 and #3.   If these are set to OFF, then security defaults to "Waiting Room".  If you then check the "User required to Authenticate" as a Security Option (while Waiting Room is OFF in global settings) then you cannot chose another option and it won't let you change it back.  Therefore, you MUST have Meeting Passcode = ON and PMI = ON for the "No waiting for host" and a "one click" experience.  

[CRCHS]

I have these settings applied

exactly as recommended did not resolve the issue.  

[Ray_Harwood]

Screen shot of your settings, please.