Forms Authentication and integrating with an existing Web App -- sql server reporting services

Danny
6/21/2004 11:52:02 PM

Hello,

I was hoping someone could help me with this.

I have set up a Reporting Services installation to use forms authentication as described on the MSDN page http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/ufairs.asp. By itself it is working fine.

Now I would like to integrate access to reports from this instance of Reporting Services from into an existing ASP.NET Web Application that also uses forms authentication.

The problem I have is that I can't seem to get both Reporting Services and the Web Application to use a common forms authentication cookie. Even if I give the <forms> element the same name in both the web.config for the report server and the web.config for the custom web app - one application still don't seem to see the authentication cookie generated by the other.

The ultimate goal is to have a web application, with a single forms authentication login page, that enables users to access reporting services reports.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Danny
6/22/2004 5:35:01 PM

I just came across the article 'Forms Authentication Across Applications' that discusses the requirement of matching attributes in the forms element and machineKey element.

I assume this matches my scenario so I will try it out and see how it goes.

Please, do reply to this post however if you have anything to contribute.

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