Confluence instance permissions

[Rita Kumar]

We are trying to grant access to partners to select areas of our confluence on premise instance.  However, our user group is for employees.  If I create a seperate group and grant that group view access to the main space it says you do not have permission to view, when we grant them permission to users they can see things.  I want to know how to change the default so that if we create another group with the entire directory of employees and partners we can ensure they see what they can.  Or how can I make it such that the partner group can also access things once in a group without being part of the default user group.

Thanks,
Rita 

[HomeAway]

Add the partner group to the set of groups on Global Permissions.  Then grant that groups space permissions selectively as appropriate.  That way they can log in to Confluence but only see appropriate spaces.