Hi

has anyone managed to get shared forms authentication to work between two dnn installs?

I have set it up and both sites work but you don't get a single sign on effect.

I have tried it with a Lightswitch app and a dnn site and it works well. But not between two dnn sites.

I am guessing it doesn't work because of dnn's custom users system?

Can anyone explain?

I am looking for a single sign on solution between one or more separate dotnetnuke installations.

thanks

Gus

hmm..

on second inspection this isn't working as I had hoped.  Site A has all the user accounts and site B is a vanilla dnn install.

When I created site B I used the same password for the host user that I used for the host user on site A. When I did this site B knew nothing about site A.  I then modified the web.config's appropriately.

If I log into either site as host I am automatically authenticated with the other which is exactly what I want.  However, if log into site A with any of the other user accounts I am not authenticated on site B.  Does this mean I have to sync the dnn user tables on site B with that on site A? If so it defeats the object.

The Lightswitch app I built works how I want it to. i.e. there are no users in the LS database. It uses the dotnetnuke DB to authenticate.

Gus