When I went to activate the AD module, in the authentication admin page I get this at the bottom of the settings. I was able to put all of the information in and successfully connect to our AD, but of course there are issues. It won't autolog any user in, even after clearing the cache and cookies. So I'm thinkin if I can figure out this issue first, then we can work our way around the other issues that I may have. This is what I get in my event viewer:

ModuleId: -1
ModuleDefId: -1
FriendlyName:
ModuleControlSource:
AssemblyVersion: 04.08.03
PortalID: 0
PortalName: Test DotNetNuke Site
UserID: 1
UserName: testUser
ActiveTabID: 52
ActiveTabName: Authentication
RawURL: /dotnetnuke_2/Admin/Authentication/tabid/52/Default.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /DotNetNuke_2/Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://itweb100/dotnetnuke_2/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: e2ab5377-c2b2-4762-ae7a-1845d3947b08
InnerException: Access is denied.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind
StackTrace:
Message: DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Access is denied. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80070005): Access is denied. at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail) at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind() at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.get_IsContainer() at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntries.ChildEnumerator..ctor(DirectoryEntry container) at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntries.GetEnumerator() at DotNetNuke.Authentication.ActiveDirectory.Settings.CheckPipelineMode() at DotNetNuke.Authentication.ActiveDirectory.Settings.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Source:
Server Name: ITWEB100

Ok, when I do that this is what I get. I followed the instructions, giving my account full access to the web folder and the .net temp folder. What else should i be posting to help figure this out? Oh, the one other difference is that I'm on win2k8 server, so the IIS stuff was a little different. I *think* I figured out step 6 in the IIS settings but not sure, cuz I had to click blindly till I got somewhere that sounded like what you had written. Could that be the issue?

Mike, thank you for your quick response and help, it is VERY much appreciated! ok here is my web.config with the 500 error

    <!-- forms or Windows authentication -->
    <authentication mode="forms">
      <forms name=".DOTNETNUKE" protection="All" timeout="60" cookieless="UseCookies" />
    </authentication>

     <identity impersonate="true" userName="manning-napier\ssantacr" password=”T45qwz567”/>
    <!--   <authentication mode="Windows">
            </authentication>
        -->

When I change it to this I can log in either thru a DNN user or an AD user (but not automatically which is what I'm tryin to do!)

    <!-- forms or Windows authentication -->
    <authentication mode="forms">
      <forms name=".DOTNETNUKE" protection="All" timeout="60" cookieless="UseCookies" />
    </authentication>

    <!--     <identity impersonate="true" userName="manning-napier\ssantacr" password=”T45qwz567”/>
   <authentication mode="Windows">
            </authentication>
        -->

Finally I looked at my app pools. I have both the "Classic .Net AppPool" and "DefaultAppPool" started. For the fun of it I tried stopping the "DefaultAppPool" and then I got a 503 Service Unavailable error. So I think I'm ok in that department leaving both of them running...