Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

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Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

To enable windows authentication on your domain.

1. Open Firefox

2. Navigate to the url about:config

3. Locate the following preference names and put as the value the comma separated values of the address roots.

network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris

network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris

Your value should look something like this: localhost,server1,server2,serverX

Print posted @ Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:59 PM

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# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

nice, this was stopping me from accessing our sharepoint sites in firefox, I hated typing my password in all the time, thanks!

11/16/2006 2:56 PM |

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

Nice. This will definitely come in handy.

11/16/2006 9:23 PM |

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

This is good - I don't need to key in the userid/password.

But I don't get the context menu dropdown on the documents like I do in Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The one that says, for example, on an MS Word doc: View Properties, Edit Properties, Edit in Microsoft Word, Delete, Checkout , Version History, Alert Me, Discuss, Create Document Workspace

12/6/2006 2:56 PM |

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

EXCELLENT POST! Thanks:-)

12/7/2006 1:46 PM |

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

I changed my preferences as described, but I'm still receiving an 'Authentication Required' popup which says 'Enter username and password for "" at http://localhost' . If I do try to manually enter my username and password, the popup just redisplays with a blank username and password.

I'm using firefox ver 2.0.0.3 and VS 2005. I do not have this problem with IE.

Any ideas?

3/21/2007 5:48 PM |

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

I've tried it. Also

set network.autodial-helper.enabled to false

Delon

3/28/2007 8:41 AM |

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

Sande said, "I changed my preferences as described, but I'm still receiving an 'Authentication Required' popup which says 'Enter username and password for "" at http://localhost' . If I do try to manually enter my username and password, the popup just redisplays with a blank username and password.

I'm using firefox ver 2.0.0.3 and VS 2005. I do not have this problem with IE. "

Sande, this morning I started getting the same popup screen, when I use the Blogger system. I'm using the same version of Firefox. But I have an older version on my laptop and the popup has just started there also. I find it very annoying, esp. because even when I type in my username and password, it acts like I haven't and keeps popping back up.

4/26/2007 6:26 PM |

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

Same here! It's happening across our enterprise. The problem exists in FF 2.0.0.4 even. It's like it's not even sending the authentication credentials. ::PULLS HAIR OUT::

6/4/2007 8:17 PM |

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

Same problem! It's driving me nuts and there is nothing I can do about it!?

That said IE seems to be suffering from the same problem, it must be something else, but I'm nowhere near enough tech literate to figure it out.

6/9/2007 9:57 AM |

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

If anybody suffers still: you need to try ONLY this in about: config.

network.auth.use-sspi -> false {default : true }

This is tested for killing the dialog box that occurs behind a ISA proxy, for Internet addresses. For intranet/NTLM you can add the server names as suggested or just try a '*'.

Warning ! just sharing a quick-fix. Evaluate security implications...

7/1/2007 10:47 AM |

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

Thanks!

8/15/2007 12:57 PM |

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

Nice post! Just what we needed... 8/7/2008 3:02 AM | Stephen Schletty

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

I tried putting '*' as the value but that won't work. What's the best way to allow integration for 100+ intranet sites? 9/23/2008 10:31 AM | Amit

# re: Note to self: Firefox Windows Authentication

Technically by disallowing Windows users access you can block anyone’s connection in effect disabling it.While being the most secure, its not the fastest…for sites that have hundreds/thousands of connections made per minute there is a noticeable difference between Windows and SQL Server Authentication. 12/9/2009 10:57 PM | online roulette

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