Can't access from Firefox

Hello.  It's all working fine, except that I can't authenticate via firefox.  Am trying from 3 different PCs, all running FF 3.0.6.  It's authenticating (via digest) against my AD and works fine with IE7, IE8 and Chrome.  With FF, I can't get rid of the login box without crashing out.  Ever seen this?

Thanks

hi, any chance of a response on this please?  it's all working fine (apart from the separately raised issue of having to create lots of root folders), but no version of Firefox will work with digest auth.  Can you please point me in the right direction with this?  Thanks.

Hello.  Please can I have an answer on this, even if it's 'I don't know.'  I can get every other browser to connect to filevista fine except the one most of my users use. 

Thank you.

Hi Sean,
Sorry for the late response.
Please try the following settings:

1. Navigate to the url about:config in Firefox

2. Locate the following setting names and put the comma separated values of the allowed addresses (host names) for each setting.

network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris

network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris

Your value should look like this: http://localhost,http://yoursite.com

Let me know.

Hi. I just had the same issue and the solution fixed it for me.
Running filevista directory with identity impersonate = true from web.config.

//J

Sorry, I'd forgotten I'd never got back on this.  I haven't tried this fix because it's too complicated to get my users to do this on their PCs.  I don't really understand what it's doing, but isn't it possible to alter something on FileVista itself to allow people to use FF to connect?

Thanks

Sean

Hi Sean, I'm no expert on the architecture of filevista but my experience as a web developer tells me that this setting is pretty much the same as the settings "Allow automatic login with current username/password, in the trusted sites settings for Internet Explorer. It has to do with security and settings for browsers and is not a filevista issue.

For example, if you didn't have to tell your browser what sites to trust and send your username/password to, then you would end up sending this info to every single site you browse when you are logged in to your company network.

The solution then, well IE can be updated based on policys and stuff from Active directory, you should be able to make a script that updates firefox with the correct settings and then either send this script to your users manually or automatically using domain policies.

Just clearifying:
The fix tells firefox that it is ok to pass the currently logged in users credentials(username&password) to the site you enter.

Well thanks for the input.  I get what you're saying, although the statement "Allow automatic login with current username/password, in the trusted sites settings for Internet Explorer" seems a little odd to me.  I don't have a current username password do I?  The fact that it gives me a logon box means that I have to authenticate at this point and the fact that I have to provide the username/password here means that it can't be faked.  Obviously I don't want it to provide these to any other sites.  

And I like the idea of a script, though this is almost exclusively used by my users at home so I can't push them out via policy.  

I can't get it to work, by the way.   Cem says I should change the string values to look like:

"http://localhost,http://yoursite.com"

well the last bit comes out like http://address.abc.ac.uk/filevista

but presumably I'm not meant to just copy "http://localhost" am I?  Which localhost? Not the one of the client computer with firefox on it?

Sorry to be so stupid and thanks again for taking the time to respond.

Sean

Hi again Sean. You are correct in that you do not need to copy http://localhost.

Where are your folders located? On the webserver or on a network server other then the webserver.

If located on another server your'e in for a little bit of more work since you then need to either enable impersonation or give accessrights to your webserver service account on the network share. Impersonation is the prefered solution and thats what  I did to get it to work.

//Joakim

Hello, sorry about the delay.  The folders are on the same server as filevista.  This isn't really a big deal, I'm just telling all my users they can't use firefox.  It just seems odd to me that all the other major browsers deal with this fine, it's just FF that can't handle it. 

Thanks again for your time anyway Joakim.