Just moving a report - have a question regarding execution account.

  • Hello RS gurus,

    I hope someone can help me. I have basically moved a report from one SQL Server to another. I feel as though I am almost there. When I run the report locally on the SQL Server it works. But if I run it from my browser on my machine, I get the following error..

    An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted)

    Query execution failed for dataset 'Misc_Reports'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand)

    Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'

    Now I am fairly positive that this referring to logging in through the Data Source or the fact I have not specified an account for the linked server where the data source resides, but before I configure anything else, is this what an execution account is used for, or am I incorrect?

    New to RS, so just trying my best, any help is appreciated.

    Regards,

    D.

  • Not sure on what you mean by moving on report to another SQL server.

    RS has a web front end which accesses a ReportServer database. Both can be on different boxes.

    Best practice is to use a service account. This way you only give the service account read/execute permissions to the database(s) it is trying to access.

    However, if you have your credentials in the data source something has to be up. If I can get more info I might be able to help.

  • Hello,

    Thanks for getting back, I managed this in the end. I did not use the service account, I used an execution account instead. I think the problem lay with the linked server setup, which I deleted then recreated, seems to work fine now, thank you.

    Regards,

    D.

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