I am try to utalise iis 5 to log clients in to folders on my website - i have got the user id an password prompt to pop up - how do i get the server to forward them to there folder upon successfull log in ?

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You would need to capture the logged on user name after logging in, and forward them to a dir based on that.

Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER")

holds machinename\username

of the current user accessing the page. you could put a default page in the root of the protected dir that got the name of the current user and did a server.transfer based on that username

Are you talking about HTTP or FTP?

http - i want them to follow a link - get asked for username/password then be authenticated and forwarded to there area/information.

holds machinename\username

of the current user accessing the page. you could put a default page in the root of the protected dir that got the name of the current user and did a server.transfer based on that username [/B][/QUOTE]

Then you'll need to do it this way. If theuser successfully authenticates according to the ACL on the directory, then put a default document (usually default.asp) in the root of that dir that does this (this is pseudocode, it probably wont work as is):

'***begin default.asp
dim sUser
sUser = Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER")
'sUser now holds the useraccount of the person that just
'successfully logged into this dir, and looks something like this:
' MachineName\UserName

sUser = split(sUser,"\")(1)
'sUser now holds what was on the right of the \

server.transfer("http://www.sitename.com/ThisProtectedDir/" & sUser & "/")

'****end default.asp

HTH