Added a content database from Company A's SharePoint 2010 farm to ours

I have added a content database from a company (Company A) that we are acquiring. The sent it my SFTP, we downloaded it, added it to the sql db, and I added it as a content database to a SharePoint 2010 farm at our company (Company B) that is built
to the exact build that Company A's farm was built to.
Presently, the database resides in our Development Environment which is a single server that interacts with SQL, which resides on a different server.
If I copy the URL for the site collections from the Company A's DB (from the site collection list), the content renders perfectly, but when I attached the database to a Web application that was tied to a host header with an IP address on the DNS Server
here, at company B, the content doesn't render at all. The only thing that happens is that I am asked to enter my credentials. None of the farm credentials or my credentials (all domain users) work.
I have made myself via the farm administration password the owner of the site content, but I must be missing something, because I get this error from the page when I try to render it:
<b>Error message 401.2.: </b> Unauthorized; Logon failed due to server configuration.   Verify that you have permission to view this directory or page based on the credentials you supplied and the authenticatio methods enabled
on the web server.
I am wondering if this has something to do with the origin of the content, due to the fact that it was created on a different farm under completely different credentials and what I have to do to get it to work outside of the server as content
under a new Web app.

Hi,
Do you have any update?
Best Regards,
Eric
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