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igordossantos
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Can't connect to data behind firewall - UserName Mismatch

I have been doing some research on the web about this but I'm still not able to get this to work. 

 

I have an environment that looks at it follows:

 

While setting up the connector on ServerB, I get the following error message: 

Power BI user name ‘myusername@mycompanydomain.com’ cannot connect to ‘SERVERB\DEV’ Analysis Services Server due to an effective user name mismatch.

 

Has anyone been through the above? 

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Seth_C_Bauer
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have you seen this article and validated all the scenerio's it outlines that must be in place for things to work related to the effective username?

https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/546004-power-bi-analysis-services-connector-in-de...

 


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