Cognos 8 Portal

[rajanikumarv]

Hi All,
i am very new to Cognos. i have installed IIS 6 and deployed Cognos 8 by creating virtual directory. Portal starts fine but the issue is that it asks for namespace for authentication and later user id and pwd for that name space. please tell me where should i provide these credentials?? when i give user id and password as test, it says "The provided credentials are invalid. Please type your credentials for authentication"
List of things i ve done:
1.Created a namespace in Cognos Configuration->Local Configuration->Security->Authentication->SSO[my namespace]
2.given userlookup->uid=${userID},ou=people,o=Cognos,c=CA
3.Use external identity->true
4.external identity mapping->${environment("USER_PRINCIPAL")} and
5.username->test and password->test in account mappings.

please point me where i am wrong.

[goose]

Sounds like LDAP right?  Can you not use Active Directory rather? Try these settings for LDAP you must modify the following:

1. Namspace ID (can be any value)

2. Host and port (e.g.  somehost:389)

3. Base Distinguished name (settings for your LDAP config)

4. Bind user DN and password (valid LDAP domain account)

then when you get prompted to logon just put in a valid domain username/password

[rajanikumarv]

Thank You so much for your post. but ive tried every thing you said. still i have the same problem.
ive created a new namespace in accessmanager under my directory server. ive created a user and checked basic signon giving user name and password.and given access to a database . kindly tell me how to proceed.

[goose]

Sorry rajanikumarv Im not familiar with Access Manager, there is a Access Manager board here though try posting  your question there. I thought you were trying to configure security for LDAP in cognos configuration.

Good luck!