I am trying to access a SSRS report using URL like in Expression ="javascript:void(window.open('http://servername/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?%2fTransaction_All_Reports%2fCustomer_+Payment_Receipt_Report&rs:Command=Render+Name &ReportParameter1=" & Fields!CustTransID.Value & " &rs:Command=Render','_blank' ,'resizeable=1,toolbar=0,status=0,menu=0,top=20,left=20,width=1040,height=1040'))"
When I try to access above Url, I am asked for my network credentials, giving which I get all pages of SSRS report rendered in browser window.
Now I want to display these contents in a popup window inside my webApp. When i try to open it asks credentials,
What i need is it possible to give credentials inside above code block? like my username and password,
I need its directly open w/o asks credenetials
Can anyone help me please ,it save my life...
Depending on the user's browser settings, you may be able to send credentials in the URL. This is generally disabled, though, because it leaves the user password in plaintext.
If accessing the server with Internet Explorer you can use Windows integrated authentication to pass the current user credentials automatically. This depends on the IE security settings.
Otherwise I don't think there's is a good way. Anonymous access to the SSRS server is not recommended, and hard to configure.
If it were my solution, I would have the server side code connect to the SSRS server, retrieve the report and then resend that stream to the user.
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I am able to setup and run the SSRS 2016 environment for reporting purposes
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/web-portal-ssrs-native-mode
When i try to access the portal [ similar to the one explained in above link] i can see all my reports and all is working .
ON top right corner of the web portal it shows the user details who currently accessed the portal and its by default the windows user who logged in to the windows. But in a specific scenario i have multiple windows users and i have to to access this report as a different windows user.
For this now i am doing the steps
close the browser
clear cache
open browser and reload report url [localhost/report/browse]
it will ask to input user name and password and i am able to logged in as different user
But is it possible to implement a logout kind of feature similar to webapps so we can redirects to Login page again in SSRS 2016 Web Portal . Is it possible ? Since i cant see anything in the documentation related to this. Can someone helps to get an idea about the implementation
I have this issue a lot while trying to setup sensible hierarchical SSRS security based on AD Groups and SSRS Server Roles and SSRS Folder Security Roles. After my browser caches creds from my NTLM challenge response, I can open an Incognito browser and login with different creds.
Could I send a hyperlink to a user via e-mail which when clicked will run and display an access report? Users will not have MS Access installed on their local machine but do have access to the local drive that the ".accdb" is stored on.
If yes; that's wonderful could you point me in a direction to get started.
If no; could you think of a workaround that might emulate this?
Goal: Allow for simple distribution of reports to new users who don't have access. Reports need to show updated information each time they're run (no redistribution required to get current data)
I've deployed an SSRS report on my PC and am able to access my report through the report manager. When I copied the report URL and opened it on another PC over the network, it asked for credentials when using Mozilla Firefox.
I've tried the following in Firefox:
The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I'll be careful, I promise!, to continue to the about:config page.
In the about:config page, search for the preference network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris, and double-click on it.
I've added my server URL in that manner, which prevents the credentials popup from appearing.
I don't think this is the correct way of doing things. If I'd pass around the URL to -say- 100 different users, they would all need to do what i did as described above?
Can anyone help me to avoid credentials popups (username and password), and open the report directly?
check your server URL, must be just "http://server_name" in firefox about:config "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris" key
store credential required in for accessing data source, at report tab "data source"-"Credential stored securely in the report server"
add in security tab "domain user" that has credentials for accessing the report , check only for "Browsing"
enter credential for "domain user",for the first time when showing report in firefox and allow to remember
now it works automatically when you start link shortcut
The report will need credentials to run. (Turning on anonymous access to SSRS is not supported and not recommended.)
Those credentials can come from a few different places.
1. Users are prompted for user name and password.
2. Credentials are stored in the browser (or in Windows.) As you've seen, this is easier to handle with Internet Explorer than Firefox for NTLM authentication. But Firefox does give you an option, as you've mentioned.
3. Some other service or website accesses the report server and hands in credentials. This other service then passes the report on to users. Designing this would require some thought: Would you need to track who accesses this service? How would you secure individual reports?
Your comment suggests that you have conflicting requirements: you aren't allowed to have Firefox automatically log in for security reasons, but you want to have Firefox automatically log in. There's no technical advice that can solve that problem.
I have a logo at the top of all my reports that I have as an embedded image.
These reports are displayed in an ASP.Net web app via the SSRS web service interface - all pretty standard stuff but the image doesn't render - I just get a broken link.
There are a number of possible solutions for this problem and I've tried a few things including setting UseSessionCookies to false in the ConfigurationInfo table.
What I've noticed is that the image displays fine when I change the anonymous account of the consuming web app from a least privileged service account to my own user account.
I do not understand why this and can't work out what special permissions are needed by my web app's service account to be able to view embedded images in reports.
Can anyone help?
Ok, problem solved. Kind of. The problem isn't limited to embedded images and occurs because I am not using the reporting services viewer.
To summarise:
1) when your web application is making the call to the report server it is fully authorized to do so. A SessionID is generated that is ONLY available to the web application account (i.e. the Service account under which the app runs).
2) the web app outputs the RAW HTML4.0 to the screen.
3) the browser receives the HTML and tries to retrieve the images referenced in the HTML.
4) the browser is running as your user account (e.g. domain\username1)
5) the report server receives a request that looks like:
6) now the SessionID listed in the URL is not associated with domain\username1, so report server claims it does not exist.
When you set the app domain to use the domain\username1 account, then the SessionID happens to be associated with your the account so suddently things 'work'. But the moment real users try the system they complain that the images are missing, since their domain\usernameN does not match the app pool account.
The solutions to this problem are as follows:
1) use the Report Viewer control. This will ensure that the URLs received by the Browser will point back to your web app and your web app identity will be used to retrieve them from the report server.
2) in your web app code, parse the HTML4.0 that you get back from the Render call, fetch and cache all the images, re-write the HTML4.0 links to point to the cached images stored by your web app and then send it to the browser (if this seems complicated... then use the Report Viewer control since it make the scenario work)
3) you can try to use the MHTML output format, this will produce a fully qualified report with images embedded in the since binary stream. The consequence of this is it is harder to embed it within an application page... but not insurmountable
I chose to use a variation on 2) because I don't want to use the report viewer. The logo I'm trying to display is already hosted in the calling web app so I just replace the src attribute of the img tag in the response returned from the SSRS report execution service with the url to this location.
I really don't want to use the report viewer as suggested as the best solution to this issue. Why SSRS has to use session information to return something as simple as a logo that is displayed on all reports is beyond me.... It has taken ages to get to the bottom of this and the solution isn't especially pretty....
Is this an external image? Take a look at this MSDN article that explains the permissions needed for retrieving an image:
When the report is previewed in Report Designer, preview uses the
credentials of the user to display the image. When the report is run
on the report server, the report server uses the unattended execution
account to retrieve the image. If the unattended execution account is
not specified, the image is retrieved using no credentials (anonymous
user account). If either of these accounts have insufficient rights to
access the image, the image will not be displayed in the report.
I would check the permissions on the image in the Report Manager.
Summary:
Does anyone know what the minimum we have to do is to get the user to be able to press a button in our app and have the report pop up in an HTML control (Delphi App) with no further input from the user?
Detail:
Authentication is no longer anything to do with IIS in 2008, and a lot of authentication discussion on the web is about IIS and SSRS 2005.
We are looking to display reports within our application and are trying to avoid using the API to re-construct the ReportViewer.
We are hoping to open the reports within an HTML control by passing a URL to the control, along the lines of http://RSServer/ReportServer/ReportDir/ReportName.....
This doesn't work and it looks like it is because the report asks for authentication. We use SQL server authentication for the rest of the app and explicitly want our app installable where domain authentication is patchy at best.
I have enabled Basic authentication which doesn't make much difference, but you don't seem to be able to anable Anonymous Auth, which wouldn't actually be desirable anyway.
Dom.
I've not tried it, but have you looked at this MSDN blog?
EDIT
This may be of more use - it suggests a method of bypassing authentication without running anonymous access
EDIT 2
With basic authorisation enabled, could you simply provide credentials in the URL? - http://username:password#servername/etc/etc?