On Wed, June 28, 2006 3:37 am, Adrian Bruce wrote: > thanks for the response, i can see how this works (i think) for basic > authentication with user input,but what i really need is to actually > retrieve the logged on user name after a user has logged into windows. So, basically, you think Windows is going to provide every web-server on the planet with the desktop username of every user of Windows who visits? Doesn't that seem like maybe a bit of a Security Risk and Privacy Invasion? I suspect that what you want does not exist, and never will exist. Though, with Microsoft, you never know... The LDAP <-> Active Directory thing is the closest equivalent to what you are asking. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php