Richard,

I read the other replies prior to posting this. How is your application accessed? By this I mean, what is the URL you are using. I have found certain session state issues when using certain methods of development with that I used for years with ASP Classic with no issues that will fail with ASP.NET. I have also developed some workarounds for these issues. One scenario is when using a non-qualified domain name that I've made a hosts file entry for in order to resolve a name to an IP address during the development process. In this scenario, the behaviour has been exactly as you've described.

Give me a little more background on your configuration and I'll see if I have an insight as to what the cause (and possible resolution) for your issue is.

regards,

Jim Erwin
Vision Data Solutions, Inc.

>I populate some session state variables with user information during login process. It shows up just fine in my default.aspx page. However, as soon as I click on a link in the default page, session state variables go away. The next page cannot see them. In the watch window I get a message that says 'session.get_item returned null. I also have the sessionID displayed in the watch window and it doesn't change so the actual session is still there.
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>I have set cookies setting in session state of the web.config file to both true and false without an difference in this situation.
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>Dick Harrold