Popup dialog asks me for credentials when launching Report Manager URL

  • I remote-desktop to our Report Server and launch the Report-Manager URL.

    I get a popup dialog asking me for my credentials. After I enter my credentials, the report website launches normally.

    I don't have this issue when I attempt to launch the same url from my local desktop (without RDP to the report server).

    What could be the issue?

    Do I need to re-initialize the report server?

  • Try this: http://blog.mtfrog77.com/2010/02/how-do-i-make-our-sharepoint-site-stop.html

    It talks about SharePoint, but the same issue.

    If I understand you properly what you are describing is that Internet Explorer is asking you for your domain login information before it will display the reporting services site to you?

    That means Internet Explorer is either not passing your authentication information to it, or it did pass it, but whatever account you are logged into on the local machine doesn't have rights and it is asking you to login with a different account.

    That link describes how to set IE to pass that information along.

    Also, what is the URL of your reporting services site? If you have additional dots (periods) in the name, that can prevent IE from passing along login data as a security risk mitigation tactic.

    If I recall properly having something like reports.reportserver.com will stop it from working due to the dot between reports.reportserver where as reportserver.com/reports will work just fine.

  • Thank you, actually the odd thing is that I RDP to the web-server computer with the same credentials that I use to launch the site from my desktop.

    I will take a look at the link you provided.

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  • If that is on a Windows Server OS that disables a lot of "features" in Internet Explorer to make it more secure, so I would bet that is why it behaves differently. You probably have to add it to trust/internet sites and it should be fine then.

  • Yes, it's likely a browser-settings issue. I will try adding to the trusted sites.

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    SQL Server 2016 Columnstore Index Enhancements - System Views for Disk-Based Tables[/url]
    Persisting SQL Server Index-Usage Statistics with MERGE[/url]
    Turbocharge Your Database Maintenance With Service Broker: Part 2[/url]

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