I recreated your environment almost completely and cannot replicate the problem. The only differences are that I am using 32bit (but I did it in 64 bit too) and SQL Server (but I am using SQL Express on my dev boxes).

What about the following keys in your app.config file? They should be as shown below.

Let's try to avoid the remote session for now, until we have done the ritual troubleshooting stuff.

Thanks

Richard

http://forum.yetanotherforum.net/yaf_postst8463_Error-Line-33-of-pagesadminadminascx.aspx .

This is another person with a similar problem, and the guy helping him is WAAAAAAAY more experienced than me.

Thanks

Richard

Could you post your web.config of your main application? I have just a fresh setup at the moment and cannot understand what else could be wrong...

I think the link above is not working, maybe this one :)

http://forum.yetanotherforum.net/yaf_postst8463_Error-Line-33-of-pagesadminadminascx.aspx 

I will go one better. My website hosts a lot more than YAF and thus has many other entries. So rather than post my web.config I will build a virtual machine today that is as close to yours as I can get. Then I will set up YAF on that machine. Then I will post the web.config from that machine.

It will take me much of the day to get this done so don't look for the web.config until tomorrow.

Thanks

Richard

My site is written in VB.Net so I cannot move the app_code files into the base app_code folder. Any ideas?

I switched now to the membership system of YAF and my forum is almost working like it should. There are just some optical issues left which I described

here .