this is some of the function from the ForumUserController.vb

Public Shared Function GetForumUser(ByVal UserID As Integer, ByVal UpdateLastVisit As Boolean) As ForumUser

Dim keyID As String = FORUM_USER_CACHE_KEY_PREFIX & UserID.ToString

Dim fUser As ForumUser = CType(DataCache.GetCache(keyID), ForumUser)

If fUser Is Nothing Then

' if current user is authenticated

If UserID > 0 Then

Dim _portalSettings As PortalSettings = PortalController.GetCurrentPortalSettings

' get the forum user based on the UserID

Dim ctlForumUser As New ForumUserController

' we could not find this forum user

If fUser Is Nothing Then

' get the DNN user

Dim ctlDNNUser As New UserController

Dim dnnUser As UserInfo = ctlDNNUser.GetUser(_portalSettings.PortalId, UserID)

If Not dnnUser Is Nothing Then

' the user is a DNN user but has never visited the forums

' so lets create a forum user

fUser = New ForumUser

With fUser

End With

thanks crispy

i installed the source version over the top of my install and edited the code as per my last post but it is still using the username as the alias when the new user is auto created??

do i have to do anything special to get this to work?

Also going forward i think it would be good to have it as a general setting as it is very useful for intranets, it looks abit ugly using the "domain name\username" as the alais not to mention not user friendly.