Yes, that was the problem.

Thanks for all your help.
Kev

>If you are using a session variable, I suspect your session is timing out after 5 minutes. You will have to increase the session timeout value with session.timeout = 600. This will set the timeout value to 10 minutes.
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>>Ok, I might give that a go, thanks.
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>>Sorry to cling to you like this, but when I'm browsing the asp's, then switch applications and work on VFP (for example), if I'm more than a couple of minutes and I go back to my browser app, the LoggedIn property seems to have reset to false and my app then throws me back to the logon screen, do you know what's happening here?
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>>Cheers
>>Kev
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>>>>At the moment I have an ASP with a login screen, the user/password fields are held in a form which calls another asp with those values. Is that the correct way, or should I be validating the user/password on the login screen?
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>>>>Kev
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>>>>>>That may be required in the long run, but I need examples on the programming side from, say a login.asp page that processes usernames/passwords.
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>>>>>>Kev
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>>>>>Do you need examples of how to pass the values from the client to the server or do you need examples of how to validate the values passed?
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>>>Yes, that is a correct way to do it. If this works for you, do it. You could also submit the form to itself and validate it with a server side include file. I would prefer the later.