Report Manger Contents menu does not allow access

There are a number of post out here on this problem. When you bring Report
Manager up (http://localhost/reports) you might not see the tabs for Contents
and Properties and the menu bar or you do see them but you can not select any
of the items on menu bar.
One solution that seems to work for making the tabs and the menu bar visible
is to disable anonymous for the website (check in IIS). If the user is
anonymous you don't have any rights to do anything, even if you are an admin
because it does not know who your are, you are anonymous.
But this does not solve the problem of items on the menu bar are not
selectable. Does anyone know the answer? I believe it is a permissions issue
of some sort, but where? What is very frustrating is that there are no error
messages any where, nothing to go on.
Since this is a problem that a number of people have run into, I would like
to Microsoft step up and explain in detail what is going on here. I have
looked in Online Books and searched Microsoft knowledge base and have found
nothing that addresses this.I search Online Books again and in the Trouble Shooting section for Report
Services I found this:
Selected Pages in Report Manager do not open
If you are using Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 configured with
default settings on your report server, you must add the Web server name as a
Trusted Site (for example, http://mywebservername). Otherwise, you cannot
open the New Folder page, New Data Source page, and Upload File page from the
Contents tab. Also, the frameset used in Report Manager Help does not open
correctly.
"gvr" wrote:
> There are a number of post out here on this problem. When you bring Report
> Manager up (http://localhost/reports) you might not see the tabs for Contents
> and Properties and the menu bar or you do see them but you can not select any
> of the items on menu bar.
> One solution that seems to work for making the tabs and the menu bar visible
> is to disable anonymous for the website (check in IIS). If the user is
> anonymous you don't have any rights to do anything, even if you are an admin
> because it does not know who your are, you are anonymous.
> But this does not solve the problem of items on the menu bar are not
> selectable. Does anyone know the answer? I believe it is a permissions issue
> of some sort, but where? What is very frustrating is that there are no error
> messages any where, nothing to go on.
> Since this is a problem that a number of people have run into, I would like
> to Microsoft step up and explain in detail what is going on here. I have
> looked in Online Books and searched Microsoft knowledge base and have found
> nothing that addresses this.
>

Report Manager Admin menu dissapearing

I've installed Reporting Services twice now. At first the administrative menu
in report manager works when I log in with an administative account and I can
upload my .RDL files. However, the next day I log in with the same account
and the administrative toolbar is gone. When I re-install it works again then
stops working. I've tried creating another administrative account and tried
logging in with that, same deal.
I don't get it, it's probably an issue with the authentication/impersonation
routines or something, but this is messed up. I don't have this issue on
another server with the same installation (Server2003, SQL2000, Reporting
Services SP2).
Any suggestions would be appreciated.Ok, I figured it out. Apparently the option to enable anonymous user access
in IIS has to checked off in both the reports and reporting services
application pools. Idiotic, you would expect it only to be required under the
reports pool as it is the one used for the report manager interface.
"Ramez" wrote:
> I've installed Reporting Services twice now. At first the administrative menu
> in report manager works when I log in with an administative account and I can
> upload my .RDL files. However, the next day I log in with the same account
> and the administrative toolbar is gone. When I re-install it works again then
> stops working. I've tried creating another administrative account and tried
> logging in with that, same deal.
> I don't get it, it's probably an issue with the authentication/impersonation
> routines or something, but this is messed up. I don't have this issue on
> another server with the same installation (Server2003, SQL2000, Reporting
> Services SP2).
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.