Question

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How does a dba go about granting access to the screen shown.

This is for a generic user using their AD credentials to access the ‘Reporting Services’ on a particular server. This is so that the generic user is able to create new ‘roles’ for SSRS. Currently only the administrator has access.

Answer 1

The image you showed belongs to connection to SQL Server which manage sql databases.

In most cases the reporting services installed on the SQL SERVER but it not mandatory. The reporting services server can be a dedicated one apart of the SQL Server.

The image you shown is the connection window to SQL SERVER
There Two option to perform a login:

1. Windows Authentication – (Uses the loged on user to the machine) A DBA needs to allow this user or a group which this user is a memeber in to connect the SQL server. In addition he need to configure which database is available to him.
2. The second option is to set a SQL User and to give him permission to manage databases.

Setup a login on SQL SERVER

The Reporting services has Report manager URL, which allows to manage report existing or add new reports ect..

In order to allow users to access the URL, you need to allow a specific user or a group to access the report server manager

Granting permission to the report manager

How to grant YOU access to a database

1. Open SQL Management Studio
2. Your DBA should login with his permission (sa/admin permission)
3. Expand "Security" Tab
4. Right click on “Login” folder and choose "New Login"
5. Click on the "Search" button next to the "login name:" field
6. In the text area search for you AD username
7. Click “Ok”
8. Choose desire master database
9. On the left panel choose the "User Mapping" option
10. Choose desire Database on the upper section
11. Select proper permission on the bottom section for example "db_owner"

After this you can create a data source with Yours user name

Does it what have you looked for?