Hi Cathi,
I actually removed the config from the subdir and used the location in the root's config - I guess I could have a config in subdir with just the info under the location...
Thanks...

>Hi doru,
>
>I see Keith has already stated why you were getting the error. You don't include everything in the sub-directories web.config but just the authentication information. It looks like you already figured that out as well.