ok... I am going through the example..

I have unselected Allow Anonymous-Access and checked Integrated Windows authentication

when i run the page a username and password box appear

if for example my computer was called roger, a user who was part of the administrators group was called paul and his password was 12345

surely i would logon

username : roger\paul
password : 12345

this doesnt work... I am just using my normal login to the computer and i am a members of administrators in the user section of computer management in control panel

this is wierd

Ok the first part of that article is just to illustrate how it COULD work. Here is the problem. In that example it assumes you are hitting the web server from localhost\site and that you are logged on to the webserver as Admin. Now, lets say you wanted to use Windows Authentication to allow people to create virtual directories and execute your above script, now you have a management problem because you have to assign User Name and Passwords to people to allow them to be authenticated and, again, that is an Admin user account that can do ANYTHING on the webserver. This is akin to giving a Bank Robber the keys to the vault and going out to lunch.

The second half of the article gets into the C++ where you design a COM component to provide this functionality.

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I agree and understand that..

I just want to get the first part working. and i dotn understand what i was doing wrong...

Is there a way in asp to retrieve part of the URL and use it

say the url was

http://localhost/site/craig

is there anyway of retrieving the word craig so to use it in the page

This is because i could have other addresses that are for example

http://localhost/site/Jon

where i need to retrieve the word jon

Ya
Request.ServerVariables("URL")

Then just do string manipulation on it.

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