Adam,   I took a closer look at the provider I had implemented from the last version, and the one provided in your samples for the new one.  I noticed a few discrepencies around the isAnonymous flag in the GetLogonIdentity.  I fixed them, and now things are working fine.  Thank you for you assistance.   Erik

I'm getting a lot of heat from my customer on this.  I haven't heard a response from my last post.  Is there anything else I can try tthat would help debug this?  Do you have any logging I can turn on that might call out a missing parameter or something.   Please help!

I appreciate your response.  However, I can show you that it doesn't work.  Even when I step through the code I can see the provideer methods getting called.  I'm returning the users in my database and setting the necessary properties from my users table.  After all the code is run the Chat server still states the ...

That is good news to hear.  However it isn't working.  It was working with 4.0, and when I uploaded all the new files it started to send this message after it connected to the server.     Please wait, connecting to server... Anonymous Users are not allowed in this application. You must sign in this website first.

I have integrated the Chat Release 5 into my site, but it keeps telling me that i need to be logged in.  i've integrated it using the chat provider, and can see that the code is called.  This same code worked in version 4.  Is there something i'm missing.   I've implemented the ChatProvider for my site as seen below: /// ...