Aadi: What i make out from your mail is that you are able to login in the frontend login form but not in the backend. I am not sure about your exposure .so taking you through baby steps :) well to go to backend, you use the following path. http://localhost/{your mambo directory name}/administrator/. This would bring the login screed for the backend and you can use the same admin and pwd you set during thr last step of installation. Well, now if your mail to group was at this point, i mean , the issue is you are able to login as admin from frontend nd not able to at the backend login screed it is just because of either of the two: 1. the sessions are not able to get written. Please make the session tmp folder writable. ANother thing is that you have messed up the database > User> Superadmin. To reset it use and md5 hash genreator and get the hashed pwd and use phpmyadmin. I have touched a few issues that might cause this. I wud follow up this thread so that I could help you out if possible.:) regards Harish PHP Data object relational mapping generator http://www.metastorage.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/