Hi Cathal, and thanks for the reply,

I had the problem before VS2008 was even introduced into the problem. I installed it so maybe I could trace down where the problem was. Having never worked on a web application project of this magnitude I have to admit I'm a little lost. One thing I did notice though is when I put a break in the installwizard.aspx.vb page where the labels get populated and step though the code, when I use the internal vs2008 web server these get populated with the correct information from the installwizard resource. When I use IIS7 they don't and remain empty strings.

Hi Chris,

I was using the DefaultApplicationPoolIdentity on the Win7 box. I changed it to use Network Service and still have the same result. But of course as you bang your head against the wall new things arise and I am starting to think this may be more of a domain issue. I have 6 computers that I "play" with and installed Windows Small Business Server 2008 for a domain controller, another box is Server 2008 Standard that is just a member of the domain but has SQL Server 2008 Standard installed, I also have a Vista box, Win7 box, and an XP box. I have tried installing DNN on all but the domain controller and have had the same results. Well last night I installed Vista on the one computer not in the domain ( I normally have Linux on this one) and installed DNN and I got the correct install screen (auto was disabled because I didn't set up the database). So my next step is to take one of the computers that I am currently having problems with and reinstall the operating system and install DNN without joining the domain to see if that is what might be causing it. I will post back my results, especially if it don't work.

If anyone knows if SBS2008 preconfigured restrictions have anything to do with this please let me know.

Thanks,

Marty

I used the local accounts. As per the DNN installation video I setup the local Network Service account to have read, modify permissions and the local IUSR_Box4 account to have read permissions. Not sure where the IUSR account plays into it but it was suggested in the video and of course used in earlier versions of IIS so I did it.