Hey,

I just installed the latest version of the access 2000 boards and I can't even log into the boards inteh admin screen or as a regular user.

Anybody else have this problem?

you must enable cookies before you can login...

are you using some kind of IP masking or dns redirect? if so try connecting to the server directly (not using ip masking or anything like that)... also your IE or your cookies might have got corrupted, try deleting cookies or repairing IE..

Also the forums might not work right if they're not on a windows server even if your server supports ASP... i had the same problem tryin to use the forums on an apache server...

this is the exact error:

"Sorry, only members with sufficient permission can access this page."

I am not using any IP masking or dns redirects or anything. I uploaded the forums and that was it.

Versions 6 & 7 worked just fine for me on the same server. It seems to be an issue with 7.01.

Usual any problems like this are due to corrupted files, delete the files on the srever and reupload them again.

Corrupted databases may also course problems.

hmmm

ok... I've deleted and reuploaded a few times and I'm still having the same problems. How do I know if the DB is corrupted and how do I fix it? It came straight out of the US zip file.

Enabling cookies may not sufficient.

If the Forums are hosted on the SAME domain as your site, cookie settings must be medium or less. If hosted outside your domain, cookie settings need to be low or less.

Note that if you link to the Forum using an IP address having used the domain name to access your site (or vice versa), this is treated as "outside" your domain and requires a Third Party cookie.  

It's not a cookie problem. I'm 99% sure of that.

The forum sofwtare works fine. If you find that it's not working then this is usually due to incorrect setup.

Things that can prevent the forum from working are sofwtare like, abti-virus, firewall, internet security, etc. that can prevent ASP pages from executing correctly.

Also IE has problems with cookies, it could be that the cookie cach on your machine is corrupted (clearout all internet files and cookies cache), also if the way your site is connected differs from the norm (IP masking, domain forwarding, ect.) this does course browsers particully IE to have problems reading back in the cookie correctly. You could try using a browser like Mozilla to see if that works, if so then you know it is an IE cookie issue with the way your site is connected to.