Accessing Reports

My host provides access to Report Manager and Report Server with the same
login and password for my SQL Server. For obvious security reasons, I do
not want to pass these out to my client to access their reports. My host
has mentioned consuming the report and using the "credentials" properties to
pass the login info to the Report Server.
I have not learned enough about .NET to understand how to do this, as I am
still use classic ASP for many applications, so this is Greek to me. I was
hoping
this would be easy to do and if someone could point me in the right
direction.
Thanks so much,
BrianWhat your host is suggesting is very difficult to do. It requires creating
a separate web page that gets a report using SOAP and streams back the
report HTML (and, separately, the images, because the browser will ask for
them separately).
Direct URL access to the ReportServer is the easiest way to handle it, and
yes, it's a good idea to have a different user name and password for that
operation.
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Cheers,
'(' Jeff A. Stucker
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Business Intelligence
www.criadvantage.com
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"mistybrian" <mistybrian@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My host provides access to Report Manager and Report Server with the same
> login and password for my SQL Server. For obvious security reasons, I do
> not want to pass these out to my client to access their reports. My host
> has mentioned consuming the report and using the "credentials" properties
> to
> pass the login info to the Report Server.
> I have not learned enough about .NET to understand how to do this, as I am
> still use classic ASP for many applications, so this is Greek to me. I
> was
> hoping
> this would be easy to do and if someone could point me in the right
> direction.
> Thanks so much,
> Brian
>|||Thanks for that information, Jeff. I hoped there would be a simple solution,
but I suppose my host is assuming that everyone is a .NET developer and could
do this with ease.
Thanks,
Brian
"Jeff A. Stucker" wrote:
> What your host is suggesting is very difficult to do. It requires creating
> a separate web page that gets a report using SOAP and streams back the
> report HTML (and, separately, the images, because the browser will ask for
> them separately).
> Direct URL access to the ReportServer is the easiest way to handle it, and
> yes, it's a good idea to have a different user name and password for that
> operation.
> --
> Cheers,
> '(' Jeff A. Stucker
> \
> Business Intelligence
> www.criadvantage.com
> ---
> "mistybrian" <mistybrian@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6596972D-86B6-47EB-8B73-535D5BAB50BD@.microsoft.com...
> > My host provides access to Report Manager and Report Server with the same
> > login and password for my SQL Server. For obvious security reasons, I do
> > not want to pass these out to my client to access their reports. My host
> > has mentioned consuming the report and using the "credentials" properties
> > to
> > pass the login info to the Report Server.
> >
> > I have not learned enough about .NET to understand how to do this, as I am
> > still use classic ASP for many applications, so this is Greek to me. I
> > was
> > hoping
> > this would be easy to do and if someone could point me in the right
> > direction.
> >
> > Thanks so much,
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
>
>