You have both options. If the account is somehow linked in to your MCC then you authenticate with the MCC login/password and pass the clientEmail or customerId in the soap headers of the account you want to access.
If you use the login/password of the account to get your authentication token, then you can access the account directly (no MCC link needed). Don't set clientEmail or customerId in the soap headers in that case. Btw: something similar is possible in V13. We prefer using MCCs as it saves you a bunch of quotas when running MCC wide reports compared to running account specific reports. It also avoids the hazzle of some user accidentially changing the account login password. Cheers -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Have you migrated to v200909 yet? The v13 sunset is on April 22, 2010. Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.