Report Builder load failure on WAN-side of firewall

All,

Can anyone shed some light on this problem:

Using the same laptop and credentials I can successfully load Report Builder ONLY from the LAN-side of the firewall. However, if I reconnect using my Sprint AirCard I cannot load Report Builder; I get the now infamous "The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized."

What ports are used by Reporting Service?

Thanks,

Brian

I'm not sure what's up with the AirCard connection, but I think I can explain the WAN/LAN difference. On the LAN side your default Windows credentials are sufficient to access the Report Builder files at http://hostname/reportserver/reportbuilder. On the WAN side, Windows integrated authentication doesn't work, so you get no Report Builder. The reason is that ClickOnce (which is responsible for downloading the application files to the client) cannot prompt for credentials, and it doesn't get any from IE, so if default Windows credentials don't work, you get nothing. The solution is to configure IIS on the report server to allow anonymous access to the virtual directory I mentioned above.

|||Does this work with port 443 also?

Report Builder load failure on WAN-side of firewall

All,

Can anyone shed some light on this problem:

Using the same laptop and credentials I can successfully load Report Builder ONLY from the LAN-side of the firewall. However, if I reconnect using my Sprint AirCard I cannot load Report Builder; I get the now infamous "The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized."

What ports are used by Reporting Service?

Thanks,

Brian

I'm not sure what's up with the AirCard connection, but I think I can explain the WAN/LAN difference. On the LAN side your default Windows credentials are sufficient to access the Report Builder files at http://hostname/reportserver/reportbuilder. On the WAN side, Windows integrated authentication doesn't work, so you get no Report Builder. The reason is that ClickOnce (which is responsible for downloading the application files to the client) cannot prompt for credentials, and it doesn't get any from IE, so if default Windows credentials don't work, you get nothing. The solution is to configure IIS on the report server to allow anonymous access to the virtual directory I mentioned above.

|||Does this work with port 443 also?

Report Builder fatal error

and yeee it′s me again :-)

cannot load the report buider from http://localhost/reports

result is always:
Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting
EventID: 5000

EventType clr20r3, P1 reportbuilder.exe, P2 9.0.242.0, P3 4258a543, P4 reportbuilder, P5 9.0.242.0, P6 4258a543, P7 3558, P8 b, P9 system.argumentexception, P10 NIL.

any possibiblities to solve this?

kindest regards from austria

Irie

Mikky

hmm am i the only one who has to fight with this problem?

the error occures on different installs....

hmmm grrrr

well, i′ll raise my hand for those who gimme a knowledge about it

big up

Mikky|||hmm hmm hmm it seems the report builder can be loaded everyhwere perfect except here... is the climate?

Irie

Mikky|||Hello, Mikky

Did you find solution? I have the same problem :(

Andrius|||Is this the server machine? If not, have you tried to reinstall the .NET Framework on this machine? If so, does it also fail with http://machinename/reports instead of localhost?

Also, make sure you don't have any previous versions of Report Builder in the application cache. Although it should grab the new version, this has been a bit flaky at times.|||hello brian,

thanks for your response,

yes it is the server machine, acutally i am totally afraid to reinstall .NET framework 2.0 should i really try it? hmmm

how can i see if there is any (it should not, but...) previous version of report builder in the appliaction cache?

please let me know!

kind regards from austria

Mikky|||hey again brian,

i tried it now with http://machinename /reports instead of http://localhost/reports and hey THAT′s IT!!!

thanks but why the heck is it like that?

Irie

Mikky