hi everyone, i'm having a weird problem with authentication. here is the situation: - i have a publicly accessible folder which has all the default security settings, everyone can view the documents. - i have a subfolder named "images" containing images used in the documents of the public directory. this "images " folder inherits the default settings. - another subfolder of the public directory is restricted to a username/password (which works fine and dandy), and documents in this subfolder use the images from the "images" public folder as well, they are not copied into the secured folder. Here is the weirdness: When a user enters the restricted area everything shows fine, the documents and the pictures which are pulled from the unsecured directory. However, once the user "logs out" and returns to the unsecured area i am getting authentication screens asking for name and password when it tries to load the *pictures*. even if i try to use the name/password which gets me into the secured area they will not show and the password screens come back... Anyone have any ideas? this is really strange... Jens Vagelpohl