I've got a user who is going to manage two separate sites on the same server. I've configured him with an account on one portal, but receive an error when I try to configure an account on the second portal saying the account already exists. I could understand this if the portals could share accounts but they can't (without an extra paid-for module).

So DNN isn't permitting the same account name on multiple portals but won't allow me to share accounts. Is there a way around this (without paying extra)?

Edit: I've just read about the Professional edition feature we have which can use configured site groups.

Tried to use this undocumented feature...??    ;-)

When creating the child site host user this did link the host account user to the parent site host user (same username & email).

However when trying to create a child user that was an admin user on the parent site got the following error:

I got the same error when trying to create a regular (non-admin) account on the child site that already existed on the parent site.

Apparently the child site can see the parent site users but can not use them. Since I am using Community edition not PE I am out of luck as I don't have access to group site capability which causes a problem as each user will require a different username and password for the parent and child sites.

Can either a workaround be found or in the next update add the group sites functionality to the Community edition please.

Thanks in advance
PatM 

This worked great after I made sure the all required profile fields were populated in the parent site user account (a requirement I found out).

Thanks for your help.