Forgot password as admin

I created a forum for guild members of an online game that I used to play. I have stopped playing and have not touched the forum in ages. The owner of the website is letting it go but I thought I would move the forum to my business site so that members could still keep in touch. However, when I go to logon as admin, my password is not working. Where in the DB is this information kept so that I can change this or see what it should be? Thanks.

Thanks Scotty. I have always had trouble with the email part of the forum. I tried to use the forgot password but ended up getting an error so not sure where I went wrong. If I could access the admin panel again, I would fix it. Since I first set it up, I have upgraded to Windows 7 as a clean install so all that information was lost. I did download the forum and DB to my computer but at the present time don't run IIS. This will be fun trying to figure out how I can access it again.

Are you using Access as your database?

If so, the error you posted above seems to relate to the Database being "read only", you would need to set the permissions on the access file to write for the IIS user.

Also, Is this running on a local computer or web hosting server?

I was finally able to get this all to work....when godaddy moved the site to a different server, it disabled the ability to write, so I set permissions again and everything is fine. Thanks!!!  

Edited by WebWiz-Bruce - 07 February 2012 at 7:23am