Integration with password protected area

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   Please help: I want to put my forum within a members only area. 
A user enters their name & password into an HTML form to log in to the members area. 
The ASP code in the "form handler" checks that the user exists by querying an Access database. If a record is found, a session variable ("loggedin") is set to true.
Which pages and which lines of code need to be modified so that once a user logs into the members area, they are automatically logged into the forum and the user name form the Members database becomes their user name for the forum.

Thanks