I’ve installed both RS 2000 & RS 2005 on various desktops and laptops in the past with no problems, so I figured getting RS 2008 up and running would be no big deal. But I did run into a little problem along the way.
After the install, I tried to navigate to the Report Manager home page and I was greeted with a login box:
Hey I’m a local admin, I don’t need to log in. What gives! So I scratched my head for a bit and then fired up Google. But the information I found didn’t help me much. I tried several suggestions such as changing the account that RS Service runs in. No luck with that. Finally I found a some help in one forum post (located at an MSND forum) that suggested changing the intranet security settings. I wasn’t sure if it would work because I was on a different version of Windows (XP vs.. Vista), and they described a somewhat different set of problems, but I figured it was worth a try. After some trial and error I put my URL in the allowed sites box, and it worked!
The link above gives the step by step for solving this, but here are some pictures showing what I did to fix the problem:
First go to Tools, Internet Options, Security Tab. Click on Local Intranet.
Then click on the “Sites” button to bring this screen up.
Click on the Advanced button and enter the URL in the “Add websites to this zone” box. Click Add.
Click Close or Ok to back out of the boxes. Refresh your screen and you are done! Report Manager should appear now.
