Admin Panel and others not accessible

[gregm]

When I log into the Admin panel I get this error;

"You are not allowed to access this section"  
I set up the same Login and Pass for the Administrator but cannot acess anything as it says
1) Im not a member,
2) Wont let me register as the username already exists, 3) Wont let me access my Profile etc...

Im baffeled

[Compuart]

hmmm, might be a problem with your cookies. Are you sure you have enabled them in your browser and/or set the site in lowest security mode? If your cookies are enabled, sometimes changing the cookiepassword and cookieusername variables in Settings.php to just another value might help.

[gregm]

No my cookies are on low security settings basically allowing almost all cookies.....  How do I cahnge the cookiename and password in php to do that?

[Compuart]

somewhere in Settings.php there is something like $YaBBCookiePassword = 'blabla'; and $YaBBCookieUsername = 'blabla'; (I'm not sure about the exact variable names, since I cannot check from here). Changing both of these settings to whatever might resolve a conflict between different YaBB versions using the same cookies.

[gregm]

Ok the forum is up and running fine except I cannot access the Admin panel nor most of the other selections on the task bar.  I have no errors other then "You are not authorized to access"  I found the Cookie code but the other Yabb help file from Yabb Gold says u dont need to change them and that forum works fine.  I can run other php programs w/o a hitch including the XMB forum with admin rights so there must be something not set correctly. Anyone have any ideas?  I like the Yabb forums and want to move everything to it.

[gregm]

I resolved the issue with administrator rights.  It seems that MySQL didnt like me using the same user and password for both the DataBase and the Forum Administrator.  Once I changed the Forum Admin to a diff username it worked immediately