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Bsallee
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5 Posts

Posted - 2004-11-19 : 16:01:41

I posted this to the reportingsrvc newsgroup but throught I would ask here as well.

I am experiencing difficulty implementing forms based Authentication.
Our dev environment is fairly straightforward using a web server with
RSe installed, a DB server with SQLee and a client machine.
I have installed the extension according to the instructions in the
MSDN article and verified settings and changes as outlined. Per
recommendation here in the newsgroup I have double-checked that my
spacing, caps, white space etc are not at issue. I have also ensured
that within the appropriate web.configs all references are to the
reporting services install by machine name and not localhost.
A user logging in is able to register and their data placed in the user
access database. One the login the proper code runs and successfully
retrieves the login information and checks against the hash and
generates the authentication cookie. However the admin or user then
immediately receives a "Reporting Services Error. This operation is
not supported in this edition of Reporting services"
Checking the reporting services logs I find the message "unable to
communicate with report server"
Does anyone have any ideas on where I might go from here?
Thanks for your attention.
Brian

DaveSemm
Starting Member

1 Post

Posted - 2004-11-25 : 08:45:06

I'm also having problems getting it to work, but you are further than I am.

This blog might help; these guys got it to work: http://geekswithblogs.net/gobrien/archive/2004/07/15/8434.aspx

I've checked & rechecked all the settings & am sure everything is exactly as in the artical. I cut & pasted the changes & fixed word wrap funnies, so did not miss any characters or break any lines. I editted the files in the .Net IDE & validated to check for typo's. I'm doing this on XP Pro with SP2.

Does anyone know if there are any errors in the MSDN artical ? I noticed that in the 'Configuring the Web.Config' section, the Report Manager Web.config does not do steps 3-5 as in the Report Server web.config - is this right ?

When I go to the localhost/Reports page, I get:
Unable to communicate with report server.

If I try going to localhost/ReportsManager, I get a Parsing error in machine.config on the line:
<add name="ValidatePathModule" type="Microsoft.Web.ValidatePathModule, Microsoft.Web.ValidatePathModule, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=eba19824f86fdadd"/>

I suspect XP SP 2 might be giving me a security problem.

Grateful for any advice.

Bsallee
Starting Member

5 Posts

Posted - 2004-11-29 : 10:28:33

Dave,

I did get my instance working - the error was simply what it claimed to be. I thought I had installed the enterprise edition of rs and I hadn't - reinstalled and problem fixed.

I think that is correct about not doing the same steps across both web.configs. It sounds as if your issue is something else entirely, I wish I could offer some assitance.

-B

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