SSRS WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent() giving me NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE

Question

Hi,

I have custom code inside of a SSRS report that needs to get the current user. e.g.

Dim myPrincipal As New System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal   
   (System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent())

I would have expected GetCurrent() to return the principal of the user that was accessing the report; however, it gives me the principal of "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE". Does anyone know how to get ReportServer to run as the user running the report? I checked both web.config, and they both indicate Windows Authentication and Impersonate=True.

Answer 1

Ok, I figured it out. I just used

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity 

instead of

WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent()

This doesn't work when I'm am previewing the report locally i.e.

Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name //returns an empty string when previewing locally

but it works fine after I deploy to a server.