Epicor and Crystal Reports - crystal-reports

I have a connection setup to OLE DB (ADO), I try to use integrated security but in Epicor it asks for a username and password to preview the report. This only happens when I am pulling a table or a view from the SQL server that has the database. So, I tried to do an ODBC connection, now it says in Epicor that it cannot connect to the database. How do I use the OLE DB connection but not have it prompt for credentials in Epicor?

You need a report viewer, which is able to preserve the login information.
Here are links to 2 free viewers:
http://www.r-tag.com/Pages/FreeCrystalReportsViewer.aspx
http://www.groffautomation.com

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