Hi,

On your local machine do you have saved credentials for each of those machines 
with the appropriate domain account?  You can add the appropriate credentials 
under "Stored User Names and Passwords" for each machine (VM) you access and 
then I would think you should be alright.

You can find it in Vista in Control Panel | User Accounts |User Accounts | 
Manage your network passwords

Wes


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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Madsen, Brian 
[[email protected]]
Sent: January 12, 2009 5:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: TFS 2008 credential behavior...or is AD borked?

Hey Guys,

Our TFS is running smoothly – for all sense and purposes that is – have 
continuous integration working, permissions, team site (TSWA) etc..all is 
running smoothly..except for the Documents tab in Team Explorer and I think I 
know why.

It comes down to how credentials seems to be behaving.

First off, our TFS sits on the client domain and in order to access it we need 
to enter our domain credentials in (duh). We’re running 5-6 virtual images 
which are all outside of the domain (fully self-contained images, with their 
own sql/domain/moss installs) and it is from these that we’re noticing the 
issue with the Documents.

The dreaded red X is showing up. Now, when we initially connect to TFS via Team 
Explorer it asks for our login credentials, as it should – which gives us 
access to the reports, source, tasks etc. It is, in itself, not a big issue as 
we can access the documents from our MOSS site anyways. TSWA doesn’t allows us 
to view the Documents tab and gives the following error if we connect from the 
virtual images to TSWA:

The permissions granted to user Madsen, Brian are insufficient to perform this 
operation.

However, having said that, Team Explorer seems to “inherit” the currently used 
credentials (which are on the virtual images and the domain they contain) for 
the Documents tab, rather than the credentials used to log in.

Reason for this assumption is that our logs on the MOSS server, connected to 
the TFS install, is showing authentication errors in the event logs. All are 
from VirtualImageDomain/Username, rather than ClientDomain/DomainUserName.

Now why is it that Team Explorer isn’t able to retain the credentials for the 
Documents tab, while it’s capable of retaining it for the other areas? 
Including reports mind you.

Reason for posting this question, even though it’s not a big issue, is that I 
don’t want this to come bite us in the b*** later down the track.

Further to that, we’re now suddenly not able to browse to TSWA from the client 
domain with Internet Explorer (but Mozilla works just fine).

I’ve long suspected that we’re having AD issues here (long story…) but not 
being able to access TSWA from the client domain as opposed to accessing it 
from the virtual images is causing some issues (not all members of the team are 
using virtual images..the PMO’s for instance aren’t, nor are the BA’s).

Now, the error we see in TSWA, when accessing it from the virtual images, seems 
to indicate that it does indeed resolve the ClientDomain/DomainUserName (eg. 
Madsen, Brian) correctly – however, it’s not able to resolve permissions 
correctly – reason for that assumption is that I’m a full admin on both the 
local moss server, am a farm admin and site collection admin, plus I can browse 
to the site manually just fine.

So, does my assumption of something wrong with AD par up with the behaviour or 
do we have a corrupt/bug/misconfiguration somewhere that’s causing this?


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