PWA and SharePoint - Integrated vs. Basic Authentication

[jwng]

I have a Project Server 2003 SP2a and WSS SP2 install on the same
server (Windows Server 2003 SP1). When I have Integrated Windows
Authentication activated, I have no problems. For reasons of user
insanity that I need not go into here, I need to deactivate that and
use only Basic Authentication. Problem is, when I switch to that, all
connections between Project and SharePoint break. I can no longer see
Issues and Risks, I can no longer view SharePoint sites from within PWA
and I can't reestablish a connection in the Admin area. Everything
just breaks.

Is this normal behaviour? Do PWA and WSS require Integrated Windows
Authentication in order to communicate? I've played with the proxycfg,
the PSComPlus, even the Application Pool settings and the SQL Server
user logins! Nothing works. Please tell me I don't have to reinstall
the whole darn thing. Unless that's the only way and it's guaranteed
to work. Blech.

Thanks.

--John Gould
Nashville, TN

 

[jwng]

Alternately, is there any way to have Integrated Windows Authentication
activated and still have it apply the selected Default Domain to all
login attempts?

--JG

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

John --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is shutting
down. To answer your question, your users must use Windows user
authentication to access SharePoint. Users with Project Server
authentication cannot access the Risks, Issues, and Documents features of
WSS. Therefore, I would strongly recommend you defy your organization's
current level of insanity and return to Windows authentication in your
Project Server instance ASAP. Hope this helps.

 

[jwng]

Thanks for the tip. After hours on the phone with Microsoft support,
we came to the same conclusion and even have a possible workaround for
the user request.