Automatic Log on to infoview

[Simon9999]

Hi All,

I am using crystal xi and crystal reports server to distribute reports. I have a number of users that need to log on to run reports.

Of course they all keep forgetting their passwords and I was wondering if there is anyway of logging them on automatically based on them already being logged onto the company network. I know we have other systems that do an auto log on but am not sure if crystal does.

Any help will be much appreciated

 

[MJRBIM]

If you are using Windows Active Directory for your company's network authentication, you can set-up the full BOE-XI (R2) product to support WindowsAD single sign-on.

LDAP is also supported for authentication, but I'm not sure about single sign-on from LDAP.

I'm not 100%, but since CR-XI server is really BOE-XI (LIGHT) you should be able to do the same thing in that version of the product.

It does often mean that you may need to create new WinAD groups if your reporting access doesn't match-up to any existing groups in your company's network authentication set-up.

Find out what your company's network authentication method is - then search the Tek-Tips, the BOBJ Support Site and BOBJ Admin Manuals for "Authentication" and "Single Sign-On".

 

[groggle]

As MRJBIM suggests, CRS supports Windows Active Directory, various LDAP and Windows NT authentication along with "Enterprise" authentication.

CRS also supports Single Sign On (SSO) for the above provided your environment meets the configuration supported by the Administration guide which comes with CRS.

SSO is more complicated than "integrated authentication" as it requires the editing of web.config files as explained in the administration documentation and is yet to be proven with tomcat as chosen web server.

 

[hilfy]

BO XI also supports "Trusted Authentication" under the Enterprise authentication type. We are successfully using it to automatically log on users who have access and are already logged in to our portal. I'm not sure, however, if the same sort of functionality exists in CRS.

How are your users getting to the log-in for CRS? When we were using Seagate Info, we set all of the users' passwords to the same "super secret" password that none of them knew. Our web app (this was pre-BO and pre-Portal!) would automatically log them in using their UserID and the secret password. This might be an option that would work for you.

-Dell

A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.