>any luck?

Hi, Darrel!

Sorry for the long delay. I've had some pressing issues at home that have turned my world upside-down for a while. I am just getting back to this now. I have looked over the tutorials and started doing work with it before the domestic interruptions and I discovered that using the configuration tool kept referring to the local SQL Express database. So after putting in what seemed to be the required code I used ftp to upload the web.config, Login.aspx, Default.aspx and Memebers.aspx pages to try it out. On the login page I clicked on the create an account link and all seemed to go well. But when I tried to log in via the browser I got the error message that the user name or password was incorrect. Something is still wrong, and I can't figure it out with my limited experience in this technology. I used the SQL Query analyzer to look at the data that was created and the password is certainly encrypted. I am wondering if it is not being decrypted in the same way it was encrypted when created.

I was all happy when the create user form seemed to work. Then the brick wall hit me again. I followed their instructions concerning viewStateEncryptionMode (set to "Auto"), enableViewStateMac="true", setting the validationKey for the viewState and validation to "SHA1". That was all supposed to refer to viewState encryption. I set the key to the length they suggest and set the decryptionKey to the 64 character length. Decryption is set to "AES". I used the sample in the help on generating machine keys to create the encryption key generator console application and ran it and copied and pasted the results. Strangely, the results were one character longer than required, which caused an error. When I deleted one the error went away. I am wondering now if the validationKey should have been set to the same thing as the decryptionKey. Could this be the problem?

I will post the code if it will help. Just let me know.

I hope someone can help, I really want to use the membership and roles features now that I see how they can be used.

Thanks,
Dana