Forms Security Extension Sample

Hi,

I have installed the SSRS 2005 Forms based login security extension as per the sample and instructions that come with the product install. I have double checked my work and debugged up to the point explained here.

My user is in the database and I can get to the login page. I have traced the code and can see the user being authenticated properly by server.LogonUser, the authentication cookie being created and placed in the response object, and then the redirect url being set to the reports/pages/folder.aspx. I have employed tcptrace and can see the sqlAuthCookie set in subsequent posts.

Unfortunately the redirect to folder.aspx never happens. I keep returning to UILogon.aspx. I think their is something either wrong with the auth cookie or the web.config in the ReportServer IIS virtual directory. The relevant xml from the web.config is attached below.

I would appreciate any thoughts. I am running on W2K3 SP1. Thanks.

Mitch

<identity impersonate="false" />

<!--<authentication mode="Windows" />-->

<authentication mode="Forms">

<forms loginUrl="logon.aspx" name="sqlAuthCookie" timeout="60" path="/"></forms>

</authentication>

<authorization>

<deny users="?" />

</authorization>

Mitch, are you initially navigating to SSRS by using http://localhost or http://someMachineName?

If you hit your site with http://localhost/reports, you'll see the behavior you're mentioning above: (It's basically a side-effect of the way the code inside the Forms Auth sample is written). Try http://someMachineName/reports instead and see if you have better luck.

|||Thanks, that was it. Now I can proceed with integrating SSRS with IBM Tivoli Access manager!

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Formatting a Subscription Comment

I have looked everywhere for an answer for this one, so if it's out there and I've missed it, sorry.

I want to include a list of instructions with a report that I am sending out to a list of subscribers (not Data Driven, each is an individual subscription). It seems no matter how I enter the text in the Comments box, the body of the email comes out as a continuous stream of text with no line breaks, which is difficult for the recipients to read.

Is there a way to embed line breaks as a minimum, but preferrably additional formatting, in a subscription comment?

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Trevor

Trevor,

Did anyone answer this? I have the same question.

Thanks.

MC