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Can't authenticate user using DMS: "Failed to open document"

We have an SSO solution to qlikview 11 but are having problems setting it up correctly. We are using IIS.

I get

"Failed to open document. You don't have access to this document"

when trying to access a document through the browser.

I'm using DMS with named users. It works if I set Authorization to 'All Users' or 'All authenticated users' on the user document so I believe the problem has to do with the named users.

We're using a module registered with the QlikView server IIS to set the header

QVUSER: CUSTOM\siteuser14

before redirecting from Authenticate.aspx to (example):

/qvajaxzfc/opendoc.htm?document=/path/customerId/documentName.qvw

When I look at the sessions log for the qlikview server I have lines that look like this:

Exe Type    Exe Version    Server Started    Timestamp    Document    Document Timestamp    QlikView User    Exit Reason    Session Start    Session Duration    CPU spent (s)    Bytes Received    Bytes Sent    Calls    Selections    Authenticated user    Identifying user    Client machine identification    Serial number    Client Type    Client Build Version    Secure Protocol    Tunnel Protocol    Server Port    Client Address    Client Port    Cal Type    Cal Usage Count

RLS64    11.00.11149.0409.10    2011-11-28 04:13:16    2011-11-28 10:07:26    c:\qlikviewreports\14\report_courseelement-activity.qvw    2011-11-28 09:43:52        Socket closed by client    2011-11-28 09:28:17    00:39:09    0.000    9352    1219099    32    1    CUSTOM\    CUSTOM\    b7cb8733-85c9-456a-8ac1-1b3c07faa392        Ajax QvIIS 11.0.11149.0 IR browser.gecko 8        On        4747    127.0.0.1    51491    Named User   

Notice that the authenticated user and identifying user seems to be "CUSTOM\" i.e. that the actual user name seems to be missing. ( If I understand it correctly it should be CUSTOM\siteuser14 in my case)

Here is an exerpt from the qlik view Events log after a restart of the service and trying to load a document:

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:25:36    4    700    Information    Mount: Found Mount  at location C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\Documents  browsable

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:25:36    4    700    Information    Mount: Found Mount CustRep at location C:\QlikViewReports  browsable

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:25:59    4    700    Information    Ticket created: Ticket for CUSTOM\.

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:25:59    4    700    Information    Mount: Found Mount  at location C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\Documents  browsable

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:25:59    4    700    Information    Mount: Found Mount CustRep at location C:\QlikViewReports  browsable

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:25:59    4    700    Information    Ticket Lookup: Ticket E7C1D700882F41EEDFB6271F26A091496131A734 was found.

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:25:59    4    700    Information    Document Open: Open document: User  has no access to document custrep/14/report_courseelement-activity.qvw

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:25:59    2    500    Warning    Document Load: The document C:\QLIKVIEWREPORTS\14\report_courseelement-activity.qvw failed to load because of no file access [19].

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:36:46    4    700    Information    Ticket created: Ticket for CUSTOM\.

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:36:47    4    700    Information    Ticket Lookup: Ticket CE09803F2EC1481D9CB92081288F47966669BFFC was found.

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:36:47    4    700    Information    Document Open: Open document: User  has no access to document custrep/14/report_courseelement-activity.qvw

2011-11-28 14:25:35    2011-11-28 14:36:47    2    500    Warning    Document Load: The document C:\QLIKVIEWREPORTS\14\report_courseelement-activity.qvw failed to load because of no file access [19].

I'm rather new to qlikview so it might be something simple that I've missed.

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Hi Kschmidt,

As you said,

It seems something was changed in the way QlikView authenticates. Our IIS module sets the QVUSER header for Authenticate.aspx only, which works fine in QV10, but in QV11 we also need to set it for /QvAjaxZfc/QvsViewClient.aspx . This solved our problem.

Please can you let me know , how we can set the QVUSER header for Authenticate.aspx  and /QvAjaxZfc/QvsViewClient.aspx .in Qlikview IIS server 11