In windows 2000 unless you set permission to write files you can't! I mean that you have to explicitly specify that a certain folder can be written to. "..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 001d01c1215b$0c7613d0$14794ad3@maidew3qujo5j0">news:001d01c1215b$0c7613d0$14794ad3@maidew3qujo5j0... My messageboard is working properly in Win98 Apache; However, it doesn't work properly under Win2000 with the same code. ( Problem: it can save the message but cannot read from file) I have a question....is there any difference between 98 and 2000? thx for your help.... ...........nick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]