Hello again. I am a networking guy, don't know anything about web development. but I would to create a page for our group, like task list and such. I have found some scripts for long text input and stuff, but I need to know how to setup my page for user authentication. It would be nice if i can authenticate against their domain login when they launch the page, so they don't have to login everytime they need to check out a task they completed. I am running: windows 2003 server IIS MySQL--use to store data from users on the page. PHP-use for some scripts on the page. As you can see i already be way over my head on this one. Any info as to how to setup up will be greatly appreciated. thank you, spanky

The ideal solution here is to use ASP.NET windows authentication. If the user is using IE and is logged in to the domain, ASP.NET and IIS do all the work for you. You can specify allowed users in a database, directly in the web.config file, or whatever. You can keep the mySQL, but you wouldn't use PHP for this unless you want to keep track of the user's usernames and passwords in mySQL, and require them to log in when they first reach the page. Google for "asp.net windows authentication" to get more info. this article wasn't too bad as an overview. Good luck, -SN