Crystal Reports And ODBC Getting Access Denied On Pass Thru

Hello,



Environment - Windows 2003 standard server SP1, SQL 2000 SP4 (installed mixed mode)

Goal: To have Crystal reports run via odbc dsn using windows authentication.

Big Honkin' Problem: I should say that if the users are local admins on this server then the windows authentication works just great, if not a local admin then it doesn't work. SQL gives an error access denied. (this shows in the logs btw.. to the end user crystal displays a generic database error) Since windows authentication failed, I then decided to use the dbo and switch to SQL auth. This dbo did not have a password and everything ran great. Then the IT dept. asked me to give the user a password, so I did. Then everytime Crystal opened, a window would appear asking the user to type the database , user and password. In Windows everytime this was done the crystal control files would change ownership to whomever entered the information making the report useless to any other user until I manually went into the file properties and changed it back. I develop these reports thru an VPN connection and on my desktop I said phooey on re-entering the password 50 zillion times while developing so I opened the dsn and put the PWD line in and it ran great. So we figured why not put this on the server - the password does not pass thru to SQL, even as admin user. The final problem that came up in relation to this is that I then created another user in SQL with no password so the reports would run. I developed a report that takes the current user credentials and passes it to the report via dde link. On my machine running over the VPN and launching the database program (GoldMine) over the WAN the report did everything it was suppose to. I high-fived myself and installed it on the server where the users would launch it and the dang thing wont pass the credentials over to the report.

I know there is not much to SQL security - it's either SQL or mixed mode. I have it on mixed mode and I know for fact it runs because Goldmine runs. I have to have some sort of security 'thang' in Windows 2003 somewhere that doesn't allow the passord to move and SQL only sees a blank password.



If any body can give me any help - I would so greatly appreciate it.



thanks