Hi,

I went through all the trackback posts on this forum and yet I cannot make it work. I consistently cannot make it work. I know consistency is great, but right now I'm pulling my hair out. Anyway I am posting here the consistent steps I used hoping someone will find something wrong in the way I do things.

Here are the questions I am trying to answer:

1. Am I doing the right steps for the expected results?
2. If I do anybody have any ideas why this might not be working as expected?
3. Are there limitations as to where the server sits intranet / extranet?

Win2003 Server:

• Fresh install in a virtual machine.
• Fixed IP.
• Server is accessible on our intranet only.
• Database: SQL Server 2005 STD

IIS:

• Installation was originally done in the default website as another site for access this way http://intranet/dnn
• I then created a new website from the root of the machine and named it Intranet in order to remove the need for the user to type the /dnn. This website point to the same dotnetnuke install folder as the one above.
• Following that I repeated the last step and created an other site for intranetBeta which point to the same install as the other 2.
• The default site and intranet points to the same portal and intranetbeta point to the test portal.

   

Dotnetnuke Setup:

• v4.3.4 installation. Installation went smoothly without error
• added portal alias for the initial site for intranet and ip/dnn for easy access
• created a new portal which have an alias of intranetbeta.
• Turned on Active directory authentication using the authentication module. Did not change the web.config to allow automatic signon
• Updated dbo.AddUser sp to use firstname + LastName as displayName when display name is empty.
• Logged on using my AD credentials -> User automatically created in dnn
• Logged on as admin and created a dummy blogger account for trackback testing
• added both user to the blogger role
  

Blog Module:

• Added a blog module to the test portal intrabeta
• Gave permission to the blogger group to edit the 'create new blog' and 'view blog' modules
• logged on as me and created a new blog with the following options turned on
  
• Make this blog public
• Allow users to post comments
• Allow trackback comments
• Send mail notification...
• syndicate this blog
• Add Entry leaving the trackback url empty
• logout me
• logon as dummyBlogger
• Create new blog with same settings as me
• navigate to my blog post and click on the trackback link
• xml file is shown in firefox. Xml file has a valid format
  
• Copy the url
• Add blog entry
  
• Title and body "Test Blog Entry for trackback"
• paste the trackback url "http://intranetbeta/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=10" in the trackback Url box at the bottom of the entry
• Click Update
• logout dummyBlogger

Then I navigate to my original blog post and expect a comment to be there, but there is none.

Thanks for your help

Jean-Francois