Trying to connect Project Pro to Project Server 2003

[Dale Roberts]

We have MS Project Server 2003 running at our head office and we can access
it using IE but we cannot connect to the server from our desktops (which are
located at another office) or from home.

The problem is that none of our local computers belong to the other offices
domain (in fact, we all connect to our computers using local machine
accounts), and there appears to be no way to tell MS Project Pro that our
user ID is the "<DOMAIN>\UserID" assigned to us at head office so we fail
with authentication errors.
I've been trying to solve this, and I've tried all sorts of things to get
around the problem, including changing the IE trusted sites setting for user
authentication to "Prompt for User Name and Password", but nothing seems to
work.

It seems to me just idiodic that MS Project Pro does not allow an
alternative user id and password to be entered. Has anyone managed to
successfully solve this problem? Am I going about it the wrong way?

FYI, the remote connection when reaching the server through IE is through a
regular URL. http://msproject.outdomain.com/ProjectServer, which is listed
as a trusted site. If I connect through IE I have not problems as a PWA
user, but I cannot connect at all through MS Project Professional.

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! <g>

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

Dale:

The best way to deal with this is to use a Terminal Server to provide a
remote desktop connection and secure logon. You can find other ways of
exposing Project Web Access functionality in the deployment documentation.

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

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[Dale Roberts]

Thanks for your reply, Gary.

I guess what you are saying is that it is not possible to get MS Project to
connect to the server from my desktop?

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

Not practical or safe

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

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