Eric Wise

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

Eric Wise just posted an excellent tip to force Firefox to use Windows Authentication. I always had just

Nice. This will definitely come in handy.

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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

EXCELLENT POST! Thanks:-)

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?

I've tried it. Also

set network.autodial-helper.enabled to false

Delon

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.

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::

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.

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...

Thanks!

Worked great!  Thank you for the post. (Firefox v 2.0.0.9)

At the company I work at the domain part isn't used. I've changed the names to protect the company.

coweb.company.net and coweb are the same. If I type http://coweb or">http://coweb or http://coweb.company.net">http://coweb.company.net in IE it will auto authenticate.

If I add .company.net to the list of urls and Firefox will authenticate if I type in http://coweb.company.net">http://coweb.company.net.

If I add http://coweb,.company.net">http://coweb,.company.net to the list, Firefox will authenticate if I type in coweb.company.net, but not for http://coweb.

I wouldn't mind using http://coweb.company.net">http://coweb.company.net but some people fully qualify their links instead of using relative urls. In that case I might go to http://coweb.company.net">http://coweb.company.net/site/default.aspx and Firefox authenticates me but the page will often contain a fully qualified url like http://coweb/site/about.aspx. When I click on the fully qualified url I get the request to authenticate which then never authenticates and keeps returning a blank authentication dialog box.

Does anyone have an idea of how to make this work in Firefox for http://coweb without the domain name?

excellent information - so easy to find and to execute - many thanks

excellent information

PERFECT!  Thanks very much!

Beautiful; It works !!  I did only the step 3 and restarted FF2.0.0.12 ;;  It worked fine.

-Saurabh

Thanx much - this was very helpful.

Thank you for the tip - works really well.

This has to be the best Firefox tip I've ever come across.  You are my hero!  This makes using Firefox at work so much easier!

Thanx - very usefull tip !!