Hi,

Can't for the life of me get this to install locally on my laptop (can't connect to database).  A couple of questions:

1) Does your datbase have to be located in the App_Data directory?  I am using an empty db in the SQL\Data folder - the way previous versions of DNN were always set up.

2) I am using SQLExpress 2005 - it is set to Windows authentication - I assume this is correct - it installed like this and doesn't seem to want to allow SQL authentication .....

3) My webconfig points at the mdf file so:

That's useful .... I thought it would be something like that !!

Another thing - my SQLExpress seems to be set for windows authentication and not sql server authentication.  I assume I need to change this - are you able to tell me how to change it for sql authentication so I can add logins with usernames and passwords. 

I am not quite sure why it is set to windows authentication - I installed this with Visual Studio 2005 and it just seemed to be set that way.

If someone could answer this point I would be most grateful !!

Patrick