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LHP-Luke
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Hosting a Power Bi Report for Local Network Access Without Active Directory

Hello all,

 

I am developing a Power Bi report in an on-prem environment with extremely limited network access. (Internal network only)

I am testing my website on a Windows computer but in the future it will be running on a Raspberry Pi in a Kiosk format. (Raspberry OS)

 

I have generated an embedded report with the dropdown option "embed" with the format:

http://xx.xxx.xxx.xx:9090/Reports/powerbi/Dashboard/Main_Dashboard?rs:embed=true

And my Web Service URL is setup as well:

LHPLuke_1-1677267073345.png

 

When I try to access that link on a Windows machine, I am met with the Windows login prompt:

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And when I try to load it on my Raspberry Pi, it simply doesn't work.

 

How can I authenticate users automatically in some way? I cannot use Azure, as everything has to be on-prem.

I think because I can't use Azure, then I can't use the "Reporting Services Custom Security Sample for Power BI Report Server" code that a lot of people recommend for this purpose.

 

I just want to embed the link into a Javascript based website and have it show up.

No login prompts, everything local to the network.

 

Is this possible?

Thank you!

 

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d_gosbell
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That possibly means that the browser on the Pi is not responding to the NTLM authentication prompts.

 

The authentication providers supported by Report Server are documented here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/security/authentication-with-the-report-ser... 

 


@LHP-Luke wrote:

I think because I can't use Azure, then I can't use the "Reporting Services Custom Security Sample for Power BI Report Server" code that a lot of people recommend for this purpose.

 


No, you can definitely use the custom authentication without Azure and it would probably be a reasonable option in your scenario.

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