Personal Domain Login

I signed up for a personal domain under my .Mac account and it was successful.
However, when I got to the url, a login/password request box pops up. I figured
that it would use the same login / password as my .mac account but it doesn't.
Furthermore, I'd rather there wasn't any log in so I can use the site with iWeb to share
photos, blogs, etc.
Suggestions anyone? Thanks in advance.
Marston

Hi Tom, and Happy New Year too !
I ended up calling the Domain provider (Network Solutions) back, and got a different tech, who explained that the settings were incorrect for domain name forwarding, even though the CNAME was correct.
After the 3 hours I was told it would take for the new settings to kick in, I tried to access my webpage, but this time I couldn't even get the Network Solutions "Under Construction" page.
So, I finally got ticked, logged in to my NS account, and went in and manually editted the DNS server settings, which I was very very reluctant to do, even then. I'm glad I did though, because I found that in "correcting" the settings, the tech eliminated the CNAME altogether.
I put the CNAME "web.mac.com" back in, saved the change, logged out and waited three hours, and I now have my website.
The moral of the story: Don't always trust the techs to do the right thing, especially if they have funny accents......!

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