Problem Note 36591: An authentication failure might occur when you use SAS® BI Web Services for .NET to connect to a SAS Workspace Server
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When you use SAS BI Web Services for .NET to connect to a SAS Workspace Server, an authentication error might occur and the connection fails. The connection fails when the SAS Workspace Server is in the same authentication domain as the SAS® Metadata Server and the user does not have logon credentials for that authentication domain stored in the SAS® Metadata Repository.
The problem occurs because SAS BI Web Services for .NET passes in a null value for the authentication domain.
To resolve this issue, provide the metadata authentication domain in the Domain element, which is in the WS-Security header of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) request.
For example, the following SOAP request shows the SAS Metadata Server in the DefaultAuth domain:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:add="http://tempuri.org/AddFloatsWorkspace"
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soapenv:Header>
<wsse:Security soapenv:mustUnderstand="1"
xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-s
ecext-1.0.xsd">
<wsse:UsernameToken wsu:Id="UsernameToken-1"
xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-ut
ility-1.0.xsd">
<wsse:Username>sasdemo</wsse:Username>
<wsse:Password
Type="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-pro
file-1.0#PasswordText">Demo123</wsse:Password>
<wsse:Nonce
EncodingType="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-soap-messa
ge-security-1.0#Base64Binary">ex02otYhd/wVWzv92bbahg==</wsse:Nonce>
<wsu:Created>2009-07-17T14:46:38.329Z</wsu:Created>
<Domain>DefaultAuth</Domain>
</wsse:UsernameToken>
</wsse:Security>
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<add:AddFloats_WS>
<add:num1>2.0</add:num1>
<add:num2>3.0</add:num2>
</add:AddFloats_WS>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
The Domain element appears in the WS-Security header, but is not in a namespace, which conforms to the WS-Security specification. The Domain element contains the authentication domain that the SAS Metadata Server is in, which is DefaultAuth in this example.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS BI Web Services for .NET | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||