Carlos,

I've just found your post here and have EXACTLY the same issue as the other guys:

DNN4.5.2, SQLServer2005 every installed just fine and DNN runs - at least I can get to the home page.
DNN even compiled properly without error in VS2005.

Host and Admin accounts won't log in.
Wrong credentials - varification error
Right credentials - no error, redirect to Home page with no access to anything. No Admin or Host tabs or Control panel.

The machine is as loose as I can make it, will accept ANY cookie from anywhere and all permissions are as lax as can be.

No idea why this is happening.

Added a whole new DNN install on this machine, new db etc etc and that 2nd site has the same issues.

ANYONE resolve this?

Thanks!

DNNInstalled:

I don't know how long ago you added the alias for my_comp, but if you have not rebooted since you added it, do an IISReset to make sure it kicks in.  Also, when you login as Host, and look at the menu for Host, Portals, look at the format for the alias itself.  The new one should be in the same format as the one for localhost.  That should work without a problem.

BLMiles:

I don't know what is going on with your issue but what I can say is that I never install the source version of DNN, not even for module development (I only say this because you mentioned you were able to compile it).  You do not need the DNN source to do module development if that is your interest.  One issue that happens when you connect to the database with VS is that it gets locked and DNN cannot access it.  Don't know if you have seen that (this is for SQL 2005 Express only).

Carlos

 

I'm having the same problem on mine.  I don't know if mine is do to ignorance tho.  I'm 1 week old using DNN now, but i'll share my experience out here and see if it makes a difference.

1.  Installed locally on my own computer to get the dnn parent module to work, (used 4.4.1 since the install is botched for 4.5.1)
2.  Got it up and running with a few modules installed.  Went rather well.  NEVER CHANGED LOGIN CREDS
3.  Attempted to move it to my webserver.  (insert hell breaking loose)
     a.  Had issues with the webserver itself... for somereason system.web.dll (2.0) was missing from the assembly.  reinstalled .net 2.0
     b.  The database that I specified during setup was not actually located in the app_data directory, it was actually located in the program files/mssql/3.0/data directory (or something like that).  moved the database to the webserver, added it to the web.config, restarted the whole server for good measure and crossed fingers.
     c.  This apparently worked, and DNN finally had the right parent domain working.  I'm guessing tho, since the site works, but the login does not, that it's a Database permissions thing somewhere on the server.  It's reading, but it can't write to the database.  But I'm just as lost. 

In a nutshell, thats where i'm at right now.  Can't login as host/dnnhost or admin/dnnadmin.  I know the database works, it just can't be logged into.

If there are any SQLExpress experts out there, let me know if you can think of any problems that might come up when you move a database from server to another, if there are any permissions you have to reset on the database to make it work in a different environment.

~Thanks
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