Hi

I am setting up a development environment of a production website created using DNN 04.05.05.

Here are the steps i took.

1.Copied the source and database from live server.

2. Hosted both the server and the database in development box, modified the web.config with new connection strings.

3. I am able to load the default page of the site, but i wasn't able login as host.

4. So i copied the password and salt from one more site and replaced it using sql server and now i was able to login.

5. Created a new user with a specific password through the admin console, but couldn't login with that user.

I am going crazy now.. I am using the same machine key, encrption key. Even i added the code GetPassword (before the ValidateUser) for the user i am trying to login. The password is correct. But still the validateuser allways returns false.  Am i missing something? Is it something to do with the other arguments of validateuser like portalname & ip address.

Any help would be deeply appreciated.