Hello,
I've been trying to install MDS and have been running into an Authentication Failed error. The message in the pop-up is "The password supplied is incorrect". Now, I know the password works. I was able to use the same user and password to RDP into the server I am installing to. I even changed the password to something not so strong and I received the same error. I've done MDS installs before and never seen this error, but those installs had SQL Server, SSRS and MDS all on the same server (test machines). In this install, SQL Server is on one machine, SSRS is on another, with it's databases on the SQL box. MDS is being installed like SSRS - on the SSRS box with its database on the SQL box.
The account I am using for the application pool is the same as the service account I specified when creating the database. I went into SQL and verified the account has mds_exec role in the MDS database. I even gave it dbo, just to see if that might help. It has since been revoked. I'm not sure what else to do at this point. Any suggestions would be welcome. I'm putting a few more details below to hopefully make this design clearer.
DEVSQL: SQL Server machine; databases for Report Server and MDS
DEVSSRS: SSRS/IIS machine; SSRS already up and running
DOMAIN\svc_devssrs: service account to run SSRS service on DEVSSRS
DOMAIN\svc_devmds: service account for MDS; was used to create the database and the web app (which is failing); has mds_exec role in db MDS on DEVSQL
DOMAIN\admin_pv: my account, local admin on both machine, sysadmin in SQL Server
Hope that's enough info. If there is anything else that might help, let me know and I can provide it.
thanks....
Peter