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Richard_Robert
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2 years ago
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Invalid Credentials for Gateway connection to source file

I have a dataset and Power Bi report changed from a local account on a PC which was running fine: Gateway setup was ok and I was able to refresh the dataset periodically. However, I wanted to change ...
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    Richard_Robert
    2 years ago

    I've managed to solve this issue. and I will try to explain it for future users:

     

    I tried to login with my credentials that I would normally use to login into the local computer. These credentials are the same as I would use for office; so appearently there is no difference. However, for the local computer the user name is not the actual account login name. FOr my situation this was made out of the domain name (PC was added to a domain) and the username behind c:\users\....

     

    So, the actual credentials would be:

     

    • [domainname]\username 
    • Login password

    Took me a week to figure this out, so hope this information can be of help to any one.

Richard_Robert's avatar
Richard_Robert
Frequent Visitor
2 years ago

I've managed to solve this issue. and I will try to explain it for future users:

 

I tried to login with my credentials that I would normally use to login into the local computer. These credentials are the same as I would use for office; so appearently there is no difference. However, for the local computer the user name is not the actual account login name. FOr my situation this was made out of the domain name (PC was added to a domain) and the username behind c:\users\....

 

So, the actual credentials would be:

 

  • [domainname]\username 
  • Login password

Took me a week to figure this out, so hope this information can be of help to any one.