Authentication to AS

  • I'm new to AS. At this point I have created about a half dozen cubes and I've made local connections to cubes using Visual Studio and the Report development tool that comes with Reporting Services.

    I've just set up new cubes on a development server. In order to create the cubes on the development server, I logged on locally to the server to authenticate to AS (my network login is a member of the OLAP Admin group).

    My laptop is not a member of the domain and unlike SQL Server/Query Analyzer, I cannot just log in to AS with the sysadmin ID.  As far as I can tell, the only way to authenticate to AS is if you are logged in to the domain where AS lives.

    Do I understand this correctly or is there another solution? I need to use Visual Studio on my laptop to create reports against the cube and the laptop is not part of the domain.

    Thanks for your help

     

     

  • You're right in assuming that Windows security is the only way to authenticate/connect to an AS server.

    A work-around you could try is to create a user account with identical name and password on the domain (as you have on your local machine) and then you may get 'pass-through' security working.

    Steve.

  • I've not tried it, and your domain admin might have a fit, but if your local account gets seen as 'guest' on the domain, you could always change the security role/s on the DB/cubes to allow access to the guest account/group.

    Steve.

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