I'm having some trouble with the ASP.NET 2.0 Login Control.
The application can access the SQL Server. In fact, when I go to retrieve the password, it will even send me the password. Despite this, the login control continues to reject logins.
I added this to the web.config
:
<membership defaultProvider="AspNetSqlProvider">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="AspNetSqlProvider" connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" applicationName="/" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/>
</providers>
And I added the following to my connection strings:
<remove name="LocalSqlServer" />
<add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=IDC-4\EXCALIBUR;Initial Catalog=allied_nr;Integrated Security=True;Asynchronous Processing=True"/>
(Note the "remove name" is to get rid of the default connection string in the App_Data directory.)
Why won't the login control authenticate users?
It sounds like you are storing your passwords in plain text, but the default password storage format of SqlMembershipProvider is "Hashed." You would never be able to retrieve a user's password from the database if it is stored as hashed.