Thanks for the reply. That is an interesting thought. I do use special characters in my PW for Windows and it works fine logging into windows. But, as I understand it, all BI should be doing is authenticating the credentials. They are what they are. It just seems that BI is not able to look in the right place or have the right process to authenticate. I just got a response from BI support. It basicly said create another admin account which just does not sound right. I responded and I am waiting for a response. Thanks again for taking the time to reply.