"Kevin O'Donovan" <kev1609@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:uScqcSAsGHA.4208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I've written an application in VB.Net 2005. One of its requirements is to
> display a report which is hosted on our report server, and to let people
> subscribe to this report (to get a copy once a week by email, for
> example). To do this I have created a windows form containing a web
> browser control, and set the URL of that control to the URL of the report,
> which happens to be:
>
> http://10.9.200.18/Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath=%2fBunker+Management+Reports%2fActive+Bunker+Schemes+Due+To+Expire
>
> Whenever I open that form I get prompted for my windows credentials. Also,
> if I go straight to that URL in a web browser, I also get prompted for my
> credentials. However, if I start from
>
> http://10.9.200.18/Reports I can navigate to the same report without being
> prompted for my credentials.
>
> What can I do to be able to jump straight to the report without being
> prompted for credentials? I switched on the option to enable anonymous
> access for the web site itself (this is an internal web server), which did
> the trick, but then I couldn't access the report server via either
>
> http://10.9.200.18/Reports - took me to the report server home page, but
> didn't list any contents
>
> or
>
> http://10.9.200.18/ReportServer - told me that the anonymous user
> account didn't have permission to access the resource.
>
> Enabling anonymous access wasn't exactly ideal, anyway. For one thing it
> applied to the whole site, not just the report, and for another the user
> are all going to be authenticated users anyway, so...
>
> Kev