"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
>
>

"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
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> "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
> >
> >
>
>