Interesting, I always assumed they must be the one & the same & never had a reason to investigate further. The obvious sometimes eludes us. I also didn't realize that this change happened immediately. I think I will try experimenting with what exactly does change immediately. Could be useful. Thanks for the tip, it added to my day.

I wonder how you are hoping to use this. Won't "UserID.Domain" be an alias for the IP address. Maybe you are hoping to use it in combination with a popup or chat utility. To make any use of this it seems to me that you must prevent users from logging on more than once.

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Jack