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Auto Login to Reports Server

Asked by: patelajk

Hi

Just installed SSRS 2008 and everything seems to be OK.

When users try to access reports they are initially asked for their windows login detail (the blue box in SSRS) is there a way in I can stop them from getting this, ie.if they are in the correct AD group they can get into it straight away and not have to enter their login details.

Thanks in advance

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2009-09-14 at 08:21:35ID24729850
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MS SQL Reporting

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Answers

 

by: p_nutsPosted on 2009-09-14 at 08:59:59ID: 25326751

yeah the easiest way is to make sure that the URL is in the domain intranet zone..

or add the url to the trusted sites and setup trusted site to autologon with current username and password.

in internet explorer >  internet options> security > trusted sites > custom level. Scroll all the way down for that option.

Peanuts

 

by: CGLuttrellPosted on 2009-09-14 at 09:17:54ID: 25326965

Yes, I agree with Peanuts, it should really be a browser setting to trust the URL and allow it to cache the login information.

 

by: ZachToubaPosted on 2010-04-13 at 13:37:41ID: 30653474

p_nuts answer is correct and has the correct reason why it is happening. However there is an alternate (and I believe easier) method.

IE security settings for the "intranet zone" by default is set to allow "Automatic logon with current username and password" Assuming you haven't changed that setting (and if you did you can push a GPO to change it back), you just need IE to recognize that your site belongs in that zone.

Internet Explorer 7 and 8 can "auto detect" an intranet site, as fancy as that sounds all it really means is that any URL which does not contain a period is treated as an intranet site automatically. So rather than adding your site to the intranet zone or trusted zone, or pushing a GPO to make the change, just shorten your URL.

For example if you currently have "server4.mydomain.local" for the hostname and "reports" for the virtual directory, you end up with http://server4.mydomain.local/reports. Shorten the hostname to server4 (in SSRS Config Tool) and when you type http://server4/reports in IE it will automatically apply "intranet zone" settings, which allows for the pass through of the user token.

Also if you'd like to visit the site using something other than the server name, for example http://sales/reports, just add a CNAME record to your mydomain.local Forward Lookup Zone, and have it point "sales" to server4.mydomain.local.

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