Image rendering with IIS Virtual Directory

Iâ'm trying to show images in my report using a url path since I the pics are
many and ever changing. Iâ've set the image source=external;
Image value= http://<webserver>/<IISVirtualDirectoryName>/filename.jpg
If I set the IIS Directory security to â'Anonymous Accessâ' with a proper
Account name/pass, the image renders properly.
If I try to set the IIS Directory security to â'Windows authenticationâ', the
image does not render-- even though all the other report fields are populated.
So it appears to me the credentials are not being passed to IIS for the
virtual directory authentication when the report is rendered.
How can I pass the report credentials to IIS?
Btw-Iâ'm running SP1 on Win2K, and have set the unattended user/pass, and
have tried various datasource options in Report Manager without success.Tony,
I am not sure if this is what you are looking for but this is what we did.
We generated the image in an aspx page that only contains the image. We then
set the image value = to the URL of that aspx page and works without a hitch.
In our case we were generating Trend graphs in a third party graphing tool
and exporting them as bitmaps and having Reporting Services display the
image. We had to do this because Reporting Services graphing ability is
rather lacking and we are in the process of moving all of the companies
reports to reporting services.
Hope this helps
"Tony Ballman" wrote:
> Iâ'm trying to show images in my report using a url path since I the pics are
> many and ever changing. Iâ've set the image source=external;
> Image value= http://<webserver>/<IISVirtualDirectoryName>/filename.jpg
> If I set the IIS Directory security to â'Anonymous Accessâ' with a proper
> Account name/pass, the image renders properly.
> If I try to set the IIS Directory security to â'Windows authenticationâ', the
> image does not render-- even though all the other report fields are populated.
> So it appears to me the credentials are not being passed to IIS for the
> virtual directory authentication when the report is rendered.
> How can I pass the report credentials to IIS?
> Btw-Iâ'm running SP1 on Win2K, and have set the unattended user/pass, and
> have tried various datasource options in Report Manager without success.
>|||Thanks that's a great idea. I suppose you're also able to thumbnail or reduce
the image size that way too.
My thought was to create an IIS web site set to localhost of the box running
the report server, and then placing the IIS Virtual directory there with
anonymous access- so the virtual directory access is at least limited to
inside the firewall.
"KBurnell" wrote:
> Tony,
> I am not sure if this is what you are looking for but this is what we did.
> We generated the image in an aspx page that only contains the image. We then
> set the image value = to the URL of that aspx page and works without a hitch.
> In our case we were generating Trend graphs in a third party graphing tool
> and exporting them as bitmaps and having Reporting Services display the
> image. We had to do this because Reporting Services graphing ability is
> rather lacking and we are in the process of moving all of the companies
> reports to reporting services.
> Hope this helps
> "Tony Ballman" wrote:
> > Iâ'm trying to show images in my report using a url path since I the pics are
> > many and ever changing. Iâ've set the image source=external;
> > Image value= http://<webserver>/<IISVirtualDirectoryName>/filename.jpg
> > If I set the IIS Directory security to â'Anonymous Accessâ' with a proper
> > Account name/pass, the image renders properly.
> > If I try to set the IIS Directory security to â'Windows authenticationâ', the
> > image does not render-- even though all the other report fields are populated.
> > So it appears to me the credentials are not being passed to IIS for the
> > virtual directory authentication when the report is rendered.
> >
> > How can I pass the report credentials to IIS?
> >
> > Btw-Iâ'm running SP1 on Win2K, and have set the unattended user/pass, and
> > have tried various datasource options in Report Manager without success.
> >