The NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER does not have any effect on the portal, that is purely a MySQL setting. The 'table not found' error is expected the first time you run the portal with a new database. Hibernate creates the table automatically. Are any other errors being displayed, either on the console or in the log file? Here is my *-ds.xml file, do you see any noticable difference with yours: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <datasources> | <local-tx-datasource> | <jndi-name>PortalDS</jndi-name> | <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/portal24?useServerPrepStmts=false&jdbcCompliantTruncation=false</connection-url> | <driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class> | <user-name>portal</user-name> | <password>portalpassword</password> | </local-tx-datasource> | </datasources> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3967928#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...