Publishing reports to Crystal server

This is our firsts year with Crystal server and the training is forthcoming.
In the meantime, I have done the following:

Let's try this again -
first year user with Crystal server - training is forthcoming
have managed the install, setup as well as publishing report
need to find a way to accomplish the following:
1. user (within a group) to run report without needing to go through server authentication (passthrough)
2. need report to export to excel and sustain both headers and chart
thank you if you can assist, we're on a tight timeline (as usual)
D-

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Hi, sorry if my english is not good. I'm from Spain.
I have a problem. I'm programming with Visual Basic .NET 2008.
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- in the File Path area, click the ellipsis ("...") button to browse to your dll and make sure the selected File Type is ".Net DataSet Provider".
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Hello guys,
First is the system info:
Crystal Server XI R2 with SP3
OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6)
Database: Oracle DB 10g
This issue shall be divided into two parts.
Parts one:
Before the server is reinstalled we can upload some reports. But there is some limitation. When one report is changed, we can't upload it to the server directly. This report should be renamed to a different name then it can be uploaded. If we don't do so it fails with an error message says 'An unexpected error has occurred'. So every time we need to rename reports and then upload them. This workaround is OK for some reports but not all of them. No matter how we reboot the machine or restart the crystal server.
Part two:
One day the machine crashed and we reinstalled the crystal server. But this time it won't accept any report at all. Still it accepts other file such as *.Doc, *.PDF Etc. Every time we try to upload a report and we get an error message says 'An unexpected error has occurred'. If we use CMC to upload a report we get something more detail says 'There was an error while retrieving data from the server: Unknown exception occurred when calling into the plugin'.
BTW, all reports are tested in report designer. They are 100% OK. All services of the crystal server are up and running.
And one more thing, how can I attach file in this forum. I want to give dear you the log files to refer to.
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Hi
It would be easier if you would keep this all in the same topic.
As suggested in you other thread ([Can't upload reports to crystal |Can't upload reports to crystal server]), this is very likely to be a permission problem.
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Can anyone help?
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Hi Paul,
Thanks for your response.
Do you remember what kind of installation process you have followed while installing your crystal enterprise.
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Else if you don't have instance manager in crystal server 9, then for buying the product you should contact your accounts manager.
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Did you find any option Scheduling for the report with in crystal designer.
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HI,
try this:
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session.timeout=3600
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In attempting to publish a report to a remote crystal server (see code below) I get this exception.
Since the server is on a remote host, it doesn't make sense to me to set the BOBJHome property or pass the file path. This is why I am using the addUniqueFile() with the byte[] parameter file contents.
Is this the cause? Is there a better way? Please let me know if anyone has ideas.
Thanks,
--Jeff.
[http-8080-Processor25] ERROR gov.nrc.nsts.reporting.backend.helpers.PublishCrystalReportHelper - Could not publish report, exception:
com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.managedreports.reportadd.internal.b: Adding Crystal Report "6cc6326cc9dbc0" failed. An internal error occurred.
      at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.managedreports.reportadd.internal.d.a(Unknown Source)
      at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.managedreports.reportadd.internal.d.refreshReportObjectProperties(Unknown Source)
      at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.plugin.desktop.report.internal.m.refreshProperties(Unknown Source)
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Hi,
=========
Installation on Client machine:
Crystal Report 2008 V1 SP1 and SP2
SAP Integration Kits XI 3.1 SP2
Installation on BOE Server:
BOE XI 3.1 SP2
SAP Integration Kits XI 3.1 SP2
Installation on BW:
SAP BW 7
========
Created crystal report on top of SAP BW Query, and save/publish the Crystal Report into BOE Server directly via Crystal Report ->File ->Save as (I understand that we can also save the Crystal Report into BW role, then publish the Crystal Report into BOE Server via the BW Publish, but we're not using the BW Publish option here).
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