From a post 6 months ago, I read it and Squirrel explained that uncommenting the machine key and inserting your own machine key can increase your time out.

But whenever I change (I put in different numbers and letters, but you get the idea):

to the below, which I generated using IIS7

validationKey="3U0902EDFFD6542HBGE4DB52DDKLJKLJL56435JKDLJKL7UB46EF52663F4GHF29"

decryptionKey="5JFGS8908HSG8CD8CA6D17E478D19DJGKJH534G4HJGK7G,IsolateApps"

validation="SHA1" decryption="AES">

I'm essentially uncommenting the machine key, correct? Whenever I do that, I it gives me all kinds of wild errors.

Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

Jason Weber

http://aspnetresources.com/tools/machineKey 

which generated a machine key for me, and things seem to be better, and I think this issue is solved. I kept the machine key uncommented.

Jason Weber

Prior to notifying you earlier, I had already configured you a fresh set of machine keys and installed them in your web.config - with those, and I also set the cookies to use a slidingExpiration - so instead of the cookie only lasting x number of days, so long as the user visits the forum (already logged in) the cookie will re-update and re-extend for the cookie lifetime determined in that same config line. If you're still having quirks with this, let me know and I'll double check the web.config --

Thanks again for all your help!

Jason