Crystal Reports And ODBC Getting Access Denied On Pass Thru
Jul 27, 2006
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.
Hello SQL Server Experts, Data Analysts, and Report Writers et al:
re: Reporting Options with SQL Server
I wanted to propose an offshoot to the pryor thread:
Would anyone take a stab at comparing Access Reports, Crystal Reports, Cognos or other options to all the Reporting Services and its components offered as part ofSQL Server, especially as to extracting data from SQL Server into a report format?
I guess this is a far as capabilites, ease of use, limitations, and especially formatting or presentation of the end report product?
Thank you to all, and I hope this is a beneficial discussion to others.
I need to create a Crystal Report based on a SQL Server database. However, life is never that easy…
The report needs data to be taken from the database, manipulated and reported upon. Doing this manipulation within CR will make the report take far too long to produce so I thought I would create a temporary table within SQL Server and manipulate that.
Cannot get Create Table permission!
Plan B is to use VB / ADO to extract the data (about 1 million rows) from SQL Server and write it to a local Access database that I can manipulate as much as I want. Crystal Reports can then report on the Access data.
Questions: •Is this the best way to go? •I know how to use ADO to connect to n Access database but how do I connect to a SQL Server database? •I think I will need to write a single Select to build the SQL Server recordset but will I need to write each row individually, using a Do Unitl loop, to get the data into the Access recordset?
I just installed SQL 2005 on a backup/test server. When I connected with ODBC to the new server I lost all of my ODBC connections, even to the working server (SQL 2000). I did a full repair on XP and got the ODBC to connect. Why would connecting to SQL 2005 cause my ODBC to crash ?. I tried using SQL Native as well, with no joy to either server. My ODBC isn't working again. The problem began as being intermittent, i.e. connected one minute, lost connection the next. Now it's permanently disconnected and I'm not even sure the reinstall was a solution.
We have a custom assembly that worked fine with SSRS 2000. Now that we have upgraded to SQL 2005 we get an "Access is denied" error when attempting to deploy reports that reference this assembly. I could swear that when we first attempted it it worked. We decided to make a minor change to the assembly code and that's when the problem started, even though I've since reverted back to the original code to make certain that the minor change wasn't the issue. The assembly is in the proper folder - C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.2Reporting ServicesReportServerin - and the reports are referencing the current version. I've searched high and low on the web for an answer but have found nothing even remotely helpful. All this code does is return a string...it's not doing anything that should require any additional security; and even then I doubt if there would be a problem when deploying.
The full text of the error is: Error while loading code module: €˜Reporting, Version=1.0.2778.12272, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null€™. Details: Could not load file or assembly 'Reporting, Version=1.0.2778.12272, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.
HTTP Error 401.1 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials. Internet Information Services (IIS)
when I attempt to connect to Reports or ReportServer from my desktop, but it works normally when I login with the same userid and run it directly on the server, using IE. It is prompting me for a login 2 or 3 times before failing.
My configuration is:
Report Server system:
Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 - 32bit
SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Enterprise Edition Windows & Web Service run as a domain account Database connection is using domain account - not in db_owner, but in RSExec roles Database is on another server, and is Native, not SharePoint integrated Reports & ReportServer are in a separate application pool Reporting Services had SP2 installed before it was configured The Rport Server is a VM
Database server
Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 - x64 SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 64bit Version 9.00.3200.00
The Report Manager was not working at all, and I discovered that there was no entry in the .Net Framework version on the APS.Net tab in properties for the Reports virtual directory. I am not seeing any errors or anything unusual in the Event log or in the ReportServer log files.
FrontPage 2002 extensions were installed, and then removed. I noticed that this installed a SharePoint virtual directory, and that disappeared when I removed FrontPage extensions.
The domain group my userid is in is in the local Administrators group on the ReportServer system, and I have added this group as a System Administrator and Content Manager through the report Manager.
My issue is with converting multi-value parameters:
In Crystal Reports, you can set a parameter to accept multiple vales (Discrete, Range or Discrete and Range).
As an example:
I have a database table with a column called ID. I can create a parameter called param_id and set the options of the parameter to "Allow multiple range values".
With this setup, I can limit the result set of the report by comparing the param_id parameter to the ID column in the database. Because param_id is a multi-value range parameter, I can pass it the following data: 1 - 50 60 - 80 150 - 127
This will only return results within those ranges.
Does anyone know if SSRS provides this kind of functionality?
I am receiving the following error when starting a program called ShelbySystems that is supposed to connect to a local database. I don't think this is a security issue but I don't know much about SQL server either so...
  DIAG [08001] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]SQL Server does not exist or access denied. (17)   DIAG [01000] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]ConnectionOpen (Connect()). (2)
System Info: Windows 10Â Home -Â upgrade from 8 64 bit SQL server 2012 Express SQL Backwards compatibility 2005 64 bit ShelbySystems software v5.4
I am including the trace log in case it is useful.
when I was sending 50 simultaneous connections to the web services, I got these 2 errors: - "1[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied. "
- "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.)"
Everything worked fine if I ran 10 simultaneous connections. I am using Microsoft ACT to load test the web service. The database is SQL Server 2000. Any idea about why this is happening?
I am running Windows 2003 Standard edition with IIS and SQL 2000 SP3a installed on it.
The web clients use ASP pages which use DSN to connect to SQL 2000 database. It has been working fine since last 1.5 years except 2 days ago when I faced this error suddenly on server:
I checked the error logs of SQL server and didn't find anything. Only entries were that the SQL is starting database, ports and IPs on which it is listening etc. The usual stuff. No errors in starting.
The SQL Agent log showed following errors:
2004-11-30 04:45:33 - ! [298] SQLServer Error: 2, ConnectionOpen (Connect()). [SQLSTATE 01000] 2004-11-30 04:45:33 - ! [382] Logon to server '(local)' failed (JobManager) 2004-11-30 04:45:36 - ! [298] SQLServer Error: 17, SQL Server does not exist or access denied. [SQLSTATE
I don't understand what was the problem. It first occured when nothing on server was changed, next it occured 30-32 hours later, and still now it hasn't happened again.
A long shot but someone may have experienced same problem. We are using Crystal Info to run reports against a SQL 7 database. Reports that usually take 1 or 2 minutes to run are taking up to 15 minutes to run. The database is fine ie you run the query through the query analyser and it runs in 1 or 2 minutes. Any ideas... I've spoken to Seagate but not making much progress. Thanks in advance..
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<name>
<address1> <address2> <address3> <address4>
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