Hello, I have had a lot of problems with getting the autologin to work, as you can see if you have followed this thread:

 www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/89/threadid/232127/scope/posts/Default.aspx

But - now it seems to work. The fix was: Do NOT hide Login Controls. This seems really odd to me, why hiding controls should have any effect, but I can reproduce the problem when I check the Hide login controls-checkbox under Admin > Authentication. My settings are:

- No impersonation in web.config.
- Standard DotNetNuke Authentication enabled
- Hide login controls: NOT CHECKED
- Not synchonizing roles (as we have no use for this - haven't tested whether it causes problems)
- Root domain in f0rmat: dc=domain, dc=com
- Email Domain: Blank
- Auto login IP Address: Blank

I hope this weird fix can help someone else - maybe Mike can shed som light on, why this even can be a fix?

I figured you wouldn't say: Of course - that's suppose to happen :-)

At first I tried disabling one thing at a time, sync roles, autologin IPs, hide login controls, default email and such. When I realized it suddenly worked, I tried enabling one thing at a time to see, what made the difference. I experienced it was the Hide login controls. My "test-procedure" is as follows:

1) Login as host
2) Hide or show login controls, and Update Settings
3) Logout
4) Clear all temp. files, cookies and such (Delete browser history in IE7)
5) Close Internet Explorer
6) Open Internet Explorer
7) Navigate to site
8) If no autologin: Repeat step 1-7.

By doing this I can verify that it is only with the login controls visible the autologin works as expected. Weird, huh?

Hi Mike,

I was wondering, whether you ever got about to looking through the code..?

Not that I need anything fixed, as we can live with showing the login controls, but just out of curiosity, as this is a weird reproduceable issue..