Hi,
on the book page 59-60, from my understanding, Teo was mentioning that the login box should 'never' pop up if the configuration was correct.
My problem is, it pop up login box when user first time browse the report manager, and if user saves the username/password, it has no more pop ups;
How can I remove the login box permanently for intranet users? As I have to let our black berry users to use the report manager too, which apparently dislike the popup window as the blackberry users get below error message if they browse http://servername/reports/
"HTTP ERROR 401: Unauthorized You are not authorized to view this page. Please try loading a different page"
If black berry users browse http://servername/ it has the normal error, which is acceptable
"The webpage cannot be found"
Can you please advise whether I understood the book right or not? maybe user should always have a 1st time login popup??
Regards,
Min
Hi Min and welcome to the forums.
Reporting Services uses Windows integrated security by default to authenticate users just like Exchange Server when the user opens Outlook. When the user connects to an intranet resource configured for Windows authentication, a handshake takes place between the browser and the server to authenticate the user transparently without prompting the user. However, with Vista and Windows Server 2008, things got more complicated because the server and browser assume less of who the user is and what he is authorized to do.
Try adding http://servername to the Trusted Zone in IE. If this doesn't help, follow the tips in the book to prevent the pop up. As far as the blackberry users, I don't know. Does Blackberry support Windows integrated security at all? You can create a very simple web page running under IIS and configure it for Windows Integrated security. Do you see the same problem?
Hi Teo,
Thank you.
I followed the page 60 step 4 - 'atomatically detect intranet network' - for my own local computer(although my computer is not vista), the pop up stopped, which is an improvement. I also undo the above and followed your suggestions of adding the site into the trusted zone in IE, it worked too. Thank you.
The pop up does not stop on my local computer if I use IP address.
But the pop up still happens on the reporting server itself after I tried the tips in the book, which is frustraing.
Blackberry, I was thinking the step you suggested, but in case you knew something about it.
so I start to wonder whether the blackberry supports windows integrated security or not as you mentieond.
I will try to create a simple page tomorrow and let you know the outcome.
> The pop up does not stop on my local computer if I use IP address.
Using an UP address in the URL, puts the site in the IE Interenet zone so no surprise here.
> But the pop up still happens on the reporting server itself after I tried the tips in the book, which is frustraing.
No surprise again if this is Windows Server 2008 OS. See the resource mentioned in the note on page 58 for the UAC feature.