You shouldn’t get an error if you edit a user created in a separate site collection. The user’s profile is stored in each site collection though, so changes to profile fields don’t carry between site collections (This is what SharePoint’s User Profile Sync does for AD users).

If you are getting errors in this situation, maybe post screenshots/more details in https://forums.visigo.com.

Root level
Site collection A
Site collection B
Site collection C

All users will show up anywhere you are accessing the FBA User Management. You will get an error if you try editing a user that was not created in the same site collect as where you are currently.

Would love to hear if others have addressed this before and how.

Thank you!

I double checked my machine.config and web.config, everything was fine…

But I figured it out, I forgot that I had 2 differents users for my web Apps, and they didn’t had the “db_owner” rights on the FBADB SQL Server…

Good luck everyone,

And thank you a lot for this perfect guide

James

Hello, just for info, I had this exact same issue..

I double checked my machine.config and web.config, everything was fine…

But I figured it out, I forgot that I had 2 differents users for my web Apps, and they didn’t had the “db_owner” rights on the FBADB SQL Server…

Good luck everyone,

And thank you a lot for this perfect guide

James

Ignore this as well. It was a typo in the connection string in the machine.config.
Sorry for the spam.
Chris thanks again for your great guide

I’m pasting here how my web application’s web.config section for the membership and roles is as it did not appeared in my latest response:

Hi Chris,

Thanks as well for your reply.

I am having the same issue as Nigel. I also triple checked the machine.config, the SecurityToken’s web.config, the authentication provider in the Central Admin and the database rights. We have only one server in our DEV environment.

What else may I have missed? Question: Do I maybe have to change something in the web.config of the web application as well?
It is really strange to me that in the web application’s web config the default provider is ‘i’ and not the ones that I have added. Example my web application’s web.config:

Is this correct?

Thnk you in advance,
Alex

I haven’t heard of this before. Maybe IE is setup to go through a proxy and others aren’t? Have you tried on a non-work computer with IE?

Other suggestions would be to open up the IE Dev Tools (F12) to see where the errors are occurring during authetication – that might give you a hint to the problem.