FileShareProvider delivery extension credential encoding

I receive the following error when I try to provide a username and password
to the FileShareProvider delivery extension through the data-driven
subscription query:
ReportingServicesService!dbpolling!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23::
NotificationPolling processing item 951ca046-a4a7-4657-be85-04512f3e8787
ReportingServicesService!crypto!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23:: e ERROR:
DBUnProtectData failed: System.FormatException: Invalid character in a
Base-64 string.
at System.Convert.FromBase64String(String s)
at
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.DataProtection.DBUnprotectData(Strin
g data)
ReportingServicesService!crypto!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23:: i INFO: Current
user: secret
ReportingServicesService!notification!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23:: e ERROR:
Error occured processing notification. Invalid character in a Base-64
string.
ReportingServicesService!library!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23:: Data Driven
Notification for activation id c0eac265-fe46-4de5-9b13-4745be82bd25 was
saved.
ReportingServicesService!library!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23:: Status: Invalid
character in a Base-64 string.
ReportingServicesService!notification!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23:: Notification
951ca046-a4a7-4657-be85-04512f3e8787 completed. Success: True, Status:
Invalid character in a Base-64 string., DeliveryExtension: Report Server
FileShare, Report: Invoice, Attempt 0
ReportingServicesService!dbpolling!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:24::
NotificationPolling finished processing item
951ca046-a4a7-4657-be85-04512f3e8787
It seems that the extension is trying to decode the username and password
from the query, but can't since they aren't encoded. If I hard-code the
username and password values in the subscription itself, everything works
fine.
I tried to use
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.DataProtection.DBProtectData to
encode the username and password before storing them in the database, but am
getting the following error:
System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type
System.Security.Permissions.StrongNameIdentityPermission, mscorlib,
Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
failed..
What do I need to do to make the extension happy?
JayIt's a know issue, the user name and password are not supported by the file
share delivery extension, can you make them not data driven - i.e. constant?
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Dev Lead
Sql Server Reporting Services
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"Jay Hackney" <jayh@.nospam.intellinet.com> wrote in message
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> I receive the following error when I try to provide a username and
password
> to the FileShareProvider delivery extension through the data-driven
> subscription query:
> ReportingServicesService!dbpolling!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23::
> NotificationPolling processing item 951ca046-a4a7-4657-be85-04512f3e8787
> ReportingServicesService!crypto!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23:: e ERROR:
> DBUnProtectData failed: System.FormatException: Invalid character in a
> Base-64 string.
> at System.Convert.FromBase64String(String s)
> at
>
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.DataProtection.DBUnprotectData(Strin
> g data)
> ReportingServicesService!crypto!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23:: i INFO: Current
> user: secret
> ReportingServicesService!notification!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23:: e ERROR:
> Error occured processing notification. Invalid character in a Base-64
> string.
> ReportingServicesService!library!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23:: Data Driven
> Notification for activation id c0eac265-fe46-4de5-9b13-4745be82bd25 was
> saved.
> ReportingServicesService!library!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23:: Status: Invalid
> character in a Base-64 string.
> ReportingServicesService!notification!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:23::
Notification
> 951ca046-a4a7-4657-be85-04512f3e8787 completed. Success: True, Status:
> Invalid character in a Base-64 string., DeliveryExtension: Report Server
> FileShare, Report: Invoice, Attempt 0
> ReportingServicesService!dbpolling!5d8!07/14/2004-17:20:24::
> NotificationPolling finished processing item
> 951ca046-a4a7-4657-be85-04512f3e8787
> It seems that the extension is trying to decode the username and password
> from the query, but can't since they aren't encoded. If I hard-code the
> username and password values in the subscription itself, everything works
> fine.
> I tried to use
> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.DataProtection.DBProtectData to
> encode the username and password before storing them in the database, but
am
> getting the following error:
> System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type
> System.Security.Permissions.StrongNameIdentityPermission, mscorlib,
> Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
> failed..
> What do I need to do to make the extension happy?
> Jay
>

File transfer

I have to make a process/stored procedure that will either send or receive from a specific location (parameters: ftp server, username, password, filename, etc). Ne direction/help in order to do this. Or if anyone has done this before please help.
thxCould you supply some more specifics?|||The specifies are:

I have to make a sp that will send/receive files to/from an ip address or ftp site.
The sp will query the information such as (filename, send_time, receive/send, servername, usernid, password, size_of_file, etc).
Once this info is queried, the script should transfer the file to respective location using, either exec xp_cmdshell or ne other way.

Since it's critical that the file being sent/received, must succesfully be sent/received. The script must also handle that.

This script will be running on SQL server. Any sample code?
thx|||I guess you're going to use ftp...

OK...build an ftp script...and execute it from a bat file with xp_cmdshell...don't forget to redirect the output...maybe load it to a log table...

I guess you'll interogate a directory..

Use xp_cmdshell 'DIR D;\whatever\*.*

and load that to a table to interogate that...

something like that?

File Share Data-Driven Subscription

Hi.
Iâ'm trying to create File Share Data-Driven Subscription. Everything work
right, but when I set User and Password to the position â'Get the value from
databaseâ' some problems begin: the subscription stops working immediately, it
doesnâ't even try to generate report.
Can anybody help me?Yes, this is a known issue with RS. The credentials do not get encrypted
when the notification is created from the DD subscription, causing the
notification to fail. There is a work around, but it is not pretty. :)
Basically it required creating a subscription for each username/password
combo, each time you create it, find the encrypted values in the database
for the user name and password. Store these values in your table where your
DD subscription query is getting it's values. Obviously this won't work if
you can't change the values in the DD queries table.
This issue will be fixed in the next release of RS.
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-Daniel
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"Boris" <frolovBA@.trytoguessHM.com> wrote in message
news:A7EE6253-C8C5-41B9-B9B8-E97219F10946@.microsoft.com...
> Hi.
> I'm trying to create File Share Data-Driven Subscription. Everything work
> right, but when I set User and Password to the position "Get the value
> from
> database" some problems begin: the subscription stops working immediately,
> it
> doesn't even try to generate report.
> Can anybody help me?
>