forms authtentication on a directory

Has anyone come across this..any help would be grateful

I have a site that uses form authtentication on a directory.

It simply forces the user to login to access a directory, however It doesn't seens to allow entry to the directory and keeps bouncing the user back to the login page.
Noone can enter the directory without logging in as its forces authentication but nobody can.
I have tried to trap the error, but there is no exception. eg:



Try


FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCook<WBR>ie(UID,
True)


FormsAuthentication.RedirectFro<WBR>mLoginPage(UID,
True)



Catch exc As Exception


loginerror.Text = "Form Auth Error:" + exc.ToString()






End Try


To me it seems 'as if'the servernot issuing the cookies to allow access to the securedirectory. It validates the user but doesn't give them permissions to enter. Here is a piece of my web.config. Its works on the two servers I've tested this on but not on discountasp.net servers. I'm pretty sure its not a coding issue as it works when I follow it in debug on my dev enviornment and it works on my test server.

sample from root directory web.config

<system.web>


<compilation debug="true"/>


<authentication mode ="Forms">


<forms loginUrl = "/userlogin.aspx" name = ".ASPXFORMSAUTH"/>


</authentication>


</system.web>





<location path="dir1">


<system.web>





<authorization>


<deny users="?" />


</authorization>


</system.web>

 

I am also having this problem. I will try to disable the authentication and see if that lets me in.


If so hopefully there is a way around this, since we would like to retain this capability.





chuck