Hi folks,

I have just installed a fresh copy of Win2003, DNN 4.0.2, and got my hobby site all setup. Now it appears that I have this problem of a user logging in, and if they click any link it tosses them back out to the login screen if they don't have full access.

To see what I'm talking about here I have setup a account that is a registered user, but no other privledges on the site other then seeing the home page. The login name is 'testreg' and the pw is '54321' The site is www.tmgso.com/eve 

This is in IE, open the site, login user testreg. All seems fine. Now just click the HOME menu item and it will dump you right out and you have to log in again. I originally had a chat module that would show up after you logged in on the home page, so I removed it just to see if the problem was in permission bubbling, but everything on the home page is public, and it has kicked me 100% of the time.

Now, I can login as other users with roles to edit and change module content and everything works fine and I don't get kicked, only if I am in the more limited access type users (setup by roles). I have zero problems as Host/Admin, or for users that have all roles assigned (registered, general, trusted, command are the roles I have for the guild site) where those that have command role, have all the others as well. However, trusted role users (all but command role) get logged if they try to navigate around.

Any Ideas?

First, a comment:  I only use one Portal, the one that is set up during Install.  In the directory structure of the site it is Portal 0.  That portal has exactly the same losing authenticaion problem in IE that everyone else is reporting on this thread.  I have verified this on the following clients:

    Win XP Pro SP2+, .NET 2.x, IE 6.0.2900.2180 SP 2
    Win 98 (not SE or ME, but fully patched), .NET 1.x, IE 6.0.2900.???? I forget, but it is fully patched.

My server is:

    Brinkster - Win 2003, .NET 2.x, SQL 2000, DNN 4.0.2
    URL:  http://ionearth.com/default.aspx (http://ionearth.com just goes to the live site which is mostly flat HTML)

I've read this entire thread and tried all the suggestions that seem to apply...except the parent portal trick.

I have been working with, developing for, LAMP Open Source projects for years.  But, because I am somewhat new to .NET, and completely new to DNN and just got everything the way I want it, I haven't tried re-creating (copying?) my existing portal as a parent portal.

Thanks to the posts here I think I will have enough clues to do this, if I must.

There is no explicit setting that tells me if an existing portal is a parent or child, but I went through the create portal process far enough to see that there IS an explicit option to force a parent portal to be created....

My question:  Before I muck around with my host creating additional portals....how can I determine for certain if my existing portal is a child or a parent?

Any help is welcome.

- John
IonEarth Lead Web Developer

Thanks Aaron,

I moved everything over to a parent and all seems to be working...how odd...

Now my problem is moving over the users that had registered on the other portal. Is there an easy DB tweek to do that or am I stuck having them re-register on the new portal?

Also, is it really the case that for one DNN installation that you can only have one username (ie, 'jack') on any portal? That was something I just noticed when I tried recreating my test accounts. Ended up having to delete the old ones in the other portal to use the same usernames.

Thanks,
Scott