I now have a question. I have an intranet website at work which has several functions and one is so that people can look and see how many people are on breaks. it uses php heavily but for some reason i can only extract the remote pcs ip address in php. i have a 3rd party tool which i call from php to get the remote user logged on to the pc. does anyone know an easier way to do this as the 3rd part tool is very resource intensive and the processor useage rockets when it runs.