Urgent help needed PLEASE - forms and windows authentication! -- sql server reporting services

Chris Lewis
7/15/2004 4:05:47 PM

Hi,

I made a post earlier today entitled 'Forms authentication & Windows
authentication side by side' - no replies to this as yet - but I'm desperate
to know how to get around this.

Here is the post again:

'Is it possible to configure the ReportingServices webservice to
authenticate
method calls from both Forms authenticated ASP.NET pages and Windows
authenticated
code within the same RS setup? Do we need to make changes to the current
Forms auth config?

We have an application that works with Forms auth, but we now need to make
Windows authenticated method calls from other components and clients.'

In a nutshell, can the RS webservice allow both Forms and Windows
authentication at the same time???

Thanks,

Chris Lewis
exentra transport solutions ltd

Dmitry Vasilevsky [MSFT]
7/16/2004 12:10:41 AM

Yes and no. Just like Michael Edwards mentioned one asp.net application
can't accept both windows and forms authentication. However, nothing
prevents you from setting up two machines with two report servers for two
different authentication modes running against the same catalog. This
configuration should work except for a few limitations. In this case
security modes are independent and admin on windows auth won't be able to
see or manage any policies from forms auth and vice versa. Please be advised
though that such configuration is not documented, not recommended and not
tested and may not be supported in future.

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