Rob, Web servers use a generic login account to access information on the server's file system, and it is possible that XP SP2 in its zeal to act as Terminator in its security madness may have either disabled that account or modified its permissions. Just a suggestion. BZAG ========================= "You know, Brair, I think madness is just an extreme form of sanity." -- Inspector Rory Alleyn. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx