Hi there, I have a bizaare problem: Actually a PHP session issue but if there are any quick suggestion it would be very much appreciated I've got php running on a win 2k machine and IIS I am authenticating access to admin pages via an operator variable which must be set and is registered with the current session If I access the pages on the localhost machine it works fine: I login it jumps to the required page and grants access because the username and pasword were validated against the PostgreSQL database and the operator variable was set accordingly But if I go through the same proceedure from a different computer win98 machine it doesn't grant me access to the page it jumps to the right page but returns me to the login page with a "NO ACCESS" error as it should if the operator id is not set the weird thing is when I look at the sessions that get created: the operator variable did actually get set BUT for some reason when it jumps to the required page after the login it creates a new session file with no entries at all - blank the old one actually contains the set operator variable but gets disregarded because the page now looks at the empty session and therefor denies access?? I have no idea what is causing this anybody have any ideas? would be greatly appreciated thanks, Peter