One reason would be if you reconnected to an existing session. A new session is created until you log-in. After accepting your credentials this new session is killed and you are connected to your old session - thus you see a login followed by a logout associated with the temporary session. Tim Mangan _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stratton, Doug MSER:EX Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 12:36 PM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Security Event Logs Can anyone tell me why I would get these two security event log id everytime I log onto a ts with w2k on it? I looked up the events at event id web and it says 528 is a logon (this is good) and 538 is a log off (bad) I am not logging off just on. First Event Type: Success Audit Event Source: Security Event Category: Logon/Logoff Event ID: 528 Date: 2005-02-02 Time: 8:45:15 AM User: domain\dstr Computer: servername Description: Successful Logon: User Name: dstr Domain: domain Logon ID: (0x0,0x18A37A52) Logon Type: 7 Logon Process: User32 Authentication Package: Negotiate Workstation Name: server Then Event Type: Success Audit Event Source: Security Event Category: Logon/Logoff Event ID: 538 Date: 2005-02-02 Time: 8:45:15 AM User: domain\dstr Computer: server Description: User Logoff: User Name: dstr Domain: domain Logon ID: (0x0,0x18A37A52) Logon Type: 7 Thanks Doug Stratton Telephone: (250) 356-6678 Email: Doug.M.Stratton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx