On my XP developer workstation:
I have a properly running ASP.NET 2.0 web site implementing forms based authentication and I am able to login fine. For authentication I used the membership APIs - I created a SQL Server 2005 database called ?aspnetdb?using the aspnet_regsql script. I created roles and users in aspnetdb using the WAT tool in Visualstudio2008. I have 1 user in the aspnetdb called ?User1?. I am able to successfully logon using the User1 ID - on my XP machine.
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