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Asked: 2026-06-07T07:00:35+00:00

I have Jasper Server 4.5.0 64-bit running on Linux. One of the many data

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I have Jasper Server 4.5.0 64-bit running on Linux.

One of the many data sources the Jasper Server plugs into is a SQL Server with no Local SQL authentication parameters available.

How can I connect to the database using an Active Directory account instead of a local SQL account?

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    Assumptions: REMOTE_IP is the ip address sql server is bound to port 1433 listening for tcp/ip traffic. And database name is jasper.

    Instead of using the plain ole sqljdbc.jar driver to connect to SQL Server, we will utilize a product called jTDS to connect to the SQL Server. This is because it allows JDBC to connect to SQL server using Windows Authentication mode instead of SQL mode.

    Steps:

    1) Install jasper server 4.5.x

    2) Get jTDS 1.2.5 (or whatever is latest should work).

    You may have noticed that there are a few DLLs in that jTDS package. Don’t worry! The driver still works in Linux. You just cannot do single-sign on in Linux of course like Windows can.

    Extract jtds-*.jar to $jasperserver/apache-tomcat/lib

    3) Edit $jasperserver/apache-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/jasperserver.xml and add the following element before </Context>

    <Resource name="jdbc/sqlserver"
             auth="Container"
             type="javax.sql.DataSource"
             driverClassName="net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver"
             url="jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://REMOTE_HOST:1433;DatabaseName=jasper;useCursors=false;domain=COM;username=Administrator;password=XXXXXXX;user=Administrator"
             user="Administrator"
             password="XXXXXXX"
             maxActive="20"
             maxIdle="20"
             maxWait="60000"
             removeAbandoned="true"
             logAbandoned="true"         
             removeAbandonedTimeout="300"
             validationQuery="SELECT 1"/>

    4) Edit $jasperserver/apache-tomcat/webapps/jasperserver/WEB-INF/web.xml and add a new <resource-ref> for the new datasource:

       <resource-ref>
     <description>Connection Description</description>
     <res-ref-name>jdbc/sqlserver</res-ref-name>
     <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
     <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
   </resource-ref>

    5) Create a new database name “jasper” and grant read* permissions to the Active Directory account you desire to use.

    6) Run this script for test purposes:

    create table test (test varchar(50) NULL) 
insert into test values ('1')
insert into test values ('2')
insert into test values ('3')

    7) Create a new JSP file $jasperserver/apache-tomcat/webapps/jasperserver/test.jsp

    <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql" prefix="sql" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>

<sql:query var="rs" dataSource="jdbc/sqlserver">
  select test from test
</sql:query>

<html>
  <head>
    <title>DB Test</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Results</h2>

    <c:forEach var="i" items="${rs.rows}">
      Text Message: <c:out value="${i.test}"/><br>
    </c:forEach>
  </body>
</html>

    8) Start jasperserver’s tomcat. Login, and test http://localhost:8080/jasperserver/test.jsp

    You should see the rows 1, 2 and 3 from the test table.

    If it doesn’t work… review the previous steps and see what went wrong.

    9) Simply create a jasper server JNDI datasource by going to: Datasources -> New Data source -> Type: JNDI data source. -> JNDI lookup is: /jdbc/sqlserver

    Create your tables and test your report.

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