Logins to the website doesnt work after DB backing up and restoring

Hi all, plz help...

I have an asp.net login control on my website;

my users are stored in a SQL DB;

The problem is when I back-up my DB from my PC and restore it to my server; the logins doesn't work anymore. I mean the user I've created on my PC can't login on the website on the internet...

Thanks a lot...

I've had this same problem. If you delete the user from the database and re-add it, it will work. Does anyone know why this happens? Is there a numeric ID the server uses for the user name?|||

Thank god someone else had the same problem; it's been so long that I'm working on it that I allways thought it only happens to me..

Yes if I delete and then re-register same user it works but I can't say to my users please re-register:))

is there any way to programmaticaly do it? or any REAL solution??

How did you handle that? I mean does it work now?

|||Wait, when you say they are stored in a sql db, do you mean they are stored in a table or they are sql logins of the database? This happened to me when I had a user with a sql login.|||Backup/Restore does not transfer the logins. You need to generate the script to create the logins and run it to set the permissions after your restore.|||

They are in a table..

I'm not talking about SQL logins. Logins are aspnetdb logins for a web site. I mean users inside the aspnetdb_Membership and aspnetdb_Users tables...

|||The users may be in a table. You still need to run a script to SET the permissions for the users.|||

What script s that?

Users (I mean the user connecting by internet) already got permissions and re-mapped?

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The user exists in your table but he/she does not yet have the permissions to execute any scripts.

Check out BOL for sp_addlogin, sp_grantlogin, sp_defaultdb, etc.. If you are not sure of the scripts, try generating the script for existing logins.

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Hi,

I think the answer is hidden somewhere over there I didn't even realised that there could be that much stored procedure and functions... Anyways I found that sp's but I didn't understand anything:) how can I work em out from a query? Also I found "dt_validateloginparams" could that also be related?

Actually theres a parameter HasAccess like below:

EXEC

%%LocalLogin(Name= @.loginame).SetAccess(HasAccess= 1)

I think this is the key line but where does it store this HasAccess info? I couldn't find it in the tables?

Thanks a lot...

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In Enterprise Manager, right click on the DB -> All Tasks -> Generate Scripts -> Options tab -> select "Script SQL Server Logins" -> Back to General tab -> Click on Preview.

You can either paste the code into a stored proc and call it from your application or parameterize the scripts and use it for any login...as creative as you can get...

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Hi;

I'm sorry; I'm as lame as I couldn't figure it out. Maybe you already told me the answer but I don't know...

Could you please tell me what to do:)

Thanks a lot..

|||I just did. Thats the best I can do.|||Ok man; thanks.. I'll try..|||http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/22/Always-set-the-_2200_applicationName_2200_-property-when-configuring-ASP.NET-2.0-Membership-and-other-Providers.aspx

Login Problems using .net 2 Login Control

Hi There,

I have a really strange problem. I am creating a website with an administration back end. We have a seperate sql 2000 server which we are using hold authentication credientials (after having used the aspnet_regsql.exe to setup the appropriate tables.

When testing the application on the local machine, everything works fine. The web admin works, I can login, I can retrieve data to display on the rest of the site. Once uploaded to the live environment things change.

I can still connect to the sql server i.e. I have information being displayed on the public area of the site which is coming from the sql 2000 db. I can type in the incorrect login details to the admin section of the site and the system will return an error, which is correct as well, however, if I type in the correct login information, the page hangs for awhile and then displays this error: My question is, why is it doing this when it works find on my local box and the DB connection is actually working on other parts of the site? Can anyone help?

An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)

Description:An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details:System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)

Make sure TCP/IP activated as a connection method to the sql server and firewall doesn't block the connection.

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HI.

There is no firewall between the two servers and TCP/IP is enabled. The fact is, a connection is working elsewhere on the site, but the login just doesnt work.

|||How do you know the connection is working? Do you mean the conneciton can be established to the remote SQL 2000 instance? You can turn on Audit Login for the SQL 2000 instance (right click the instance in Enterprise Manager->check Properties->switch to Security tab->change the Audit Level to All->restart server, then if there is any login failure, you can find the login failure error message in SQL ERRORLOGs.|||

I think I have figured out what the problem is. I had the membership data source defined but not the roles, this meant that the roles were being stored in the sqlexpress DB while the membership details were being stored on SQL 2000. On my local machine, it could see both DB but when uploaded to the servers (that do not support sqlexpress DB) it was failing to connect once a successful login was taking place and roles needed to be allocated.

Pity the error reported gave no indication of what the problem really was.

Now I am having issues with creating the necessary permissions tables on the server. Once I get it all going and tested, I will clost this post as being solved.

Login Page just refreshes with ASP.NET 2.0 Login Control

I am try to login using the ASP.NET 2.0 Standard Login Control. When I enter the correct userId/Password and hit the Login button, the page just refreshes, no error is displayed. But if I enter wrong userid/password..it give me an error.

Also I check the Membership.ValidateUser() returns true, that means the user is validated, but still I am able to redirect to ReturnURL.?

Is there something wrong with the Authentication, or Creating a cookie. Can somebody shed some light on this,

I have the following machine configuration

Windows XP Pro Service Pack2
IIS 5.1
SQL Server 2000
Visual Studio 2005
DISABLE ANONMYOUS ACCESS IN IIS
ENABLE WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION

I am getting the following output :

Membership.ValidateUser(Login1.UserName, Login1.Password) : - True
HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name : - // is blank
User.Identity.IsAuthenticated :- False
User.Identity.AuthenticationType :- // is blank

NOTE : The applicationName is same in web.config as well as in the aspnet_Applications table in SQL Server 2000 membership database.

Do you have an error logged in the SQL Server error log file (name starts with ERRORLOG)?

If not, then you should post the question on an ASP forum.

Thanks
Laurentiu

Login Page just refreshes with ASP.NET 2.0 Login Control

I am try to login using the ASP.NET 2.0 Standard Login Control. When I enter the correct userId/Password and hit the Login button, the page just refreshes, no error is displayed. But if I enter wrong userid/password..it give me an error.

Also I check the Membership.ValidateUser() returns true, that means the user is validated, but still I am able to redirect to ReturnURL.?

Is there something wrong with the Authentication, or Creating a cookie. Can somebody shed some light on this,

I have the following machine configuration

Windows XP Pro Service Pack2
IIS 5.1
SQL Server 2000
Visual Studio 2005
DISABLE ANONMYOUS ACCESS IN IIS
ENABLE WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION

I am getting the following output :

Membership.ValidateUser(Login1.UserName, Login1.Password) : - True
HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name : - // is blank
User.Identity.IsAuthenticated :- False
User.Identity.AuthenticationType :- // is blank

NOTE : The applicationName is same in web.config as well as in the aspnet_Applications table in SQL Server 2000 membership database.

Do you have an error logged in the SQL Server error log file (name starts with ERRORLOG)?

If not, then you should post the question on an ASP forum.

Thanks
Laurentiu