Even if we check mark the box for "Auto Login” it does Automatically log you in.

Thanks.

50Pan

FWIW - I've been logged into this forum for atleast 4 weeks now without having to log back in - so it leads me to think there is something in the web.config that might be affecting your cookie storage. Being 'auto-logged-in' is based on cookies stored in the browser.

<authentication mode="Forms">
	<forms name=".YAFNET_Authentication" protection="All" timeout="43200" cookieless="UseCookies"/>
</authentication>

The important thing is the timeout="" -- that's the timeout of their login cookie in minutes.

I'll have to talk to some of the I.T. people at work. Your answers are a little beyond my knowlege but I will get there.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

50Pan

All you have to do is edit the web.config file in your forum's root folder, look for the line below:

    <forms name=".YAFNET_Authentication" protection="All" timeout="#####" cookieless="UseCookies"/>

Thanks again.

50Pan

I found through testing that you may need to add a line in your web.config with a series of settings that defines the machine key and decryption key. When an ASP.NET application pool resets, it re-creates the machine key and decryption key settings with new ones if they are not explicitly defined in the web.config file for the application. DotNetNuke hard codes these in to the web.config to avoid this problem. You must also have this setting if your website runs on a web farm.