Creating a Project Server Account using multiple Domains

[Pat]

I'm having trouble finding a way to allow a Consultant PM to open
projects stored in our project database (Project pro / Project Server
2003) using Project Professional. She is using her own company laptop
which is not a part of our Domain. I have already created a Active
Directory account for her and she can access the Project Server
website fine because the Browser will prompt you for a username and
password. At the Project Server website, she enters our Windows
generated user account information and that works great.

The problem is for her opening a project file using Microsoft Project
Professional. We have tried creating the Project Server account for
her but Project pro does not prompt you for a different set of Windows
credentials and therefore she cannot reach the URL. Testing the URL
fails. Not authorized. Even trying to use Project Server
Authentication it fails as she still cannot reach the url because she
is not prompted for a different domain than what she logged onto her
machine with that isn't validated on our network.

How do you do this for someone with a machine domain that is not on
your network?

 

[James Fraser]

password. At the Project Server website, she enters our Windows
generated user account information and that works great.

The problem is for her opening a project file using Microsoft Project
Professional. We have tried creating the Project Server account for
her but Project pro does not prompt you for a different set of Windows
credentials and therefore she cannot reach the URL. Testing the URL
fails. Not authorized. Even trying to use Project Server

....

Is the URL exactly the same: what is in Project Pro account set up and
what she's using in IE? If it is prompting in IE, then it should
prompt in Project Professional.

Try going to control panel -> User Accounts -> Advanced tab -> Manage
Passwords button and make sure that there is not a stored password for
the domain in question.

Check the usual IE things: Trusted site? Any unusual security
settings.


Strange...
James Fraser

 

[Jochen Ruhland]

Hi,

try this: Open the Project Accountsd Application, create a new account,
switch to "Forms based", enter the "foreign" domain credentials, switch back
to "Windows" and then log on. Works for me to alternatively connect to my
production system and to the VM-based testsystem which has a different
(non-trusted) domain.