Opening Sharepoint Sites in Firefox:-Firefox always asks for credentials

If you are working on Sharepoint and your sharepoint sites always asks for credentials in Firefox then there are two workarounds which you can do.There can be others but the below mentioned two workarounds are most efficient.

1.Using IE Tabs plugin in Mozilla Firefox

You can download IE Tabs plugin from here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

This plugin will simulate the behaviour of Internet Explorer Tabs inside Mozilla Firefox.And if your sharepoint site is correctly configured to run in IE then after opening it with IE Tab it will work fine in Mozilla Firefox also.

 

2.Change the network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris entry in the about:config in Firefox

Just go to the address bar in firefox and type about:config.Now a configuration file will be opened for you, now here search for the entry named as "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris"

Double click this entry and enter the name of your webserver or the server for which you want firefox to inherit the ntlm credentials.

If you are working locally and have configured your Sharepoint Server also locally then generally adding localhost,Your computer name will do.You can enter comma separated lists for all the sites for which you want firefox to inherit automatic NTLM credentials.

After this step just press ok and refresh your page you will find that now your sharepoint sites can run equally well in firefox also.

 

If you are facing the same problems in IE 7 then you can read this article to fix the problems

http://smallworkarounds.blogspot.com/2008/10/internet-explorer-always-ask-for.html

Internet Explorer always ask for password for my Sharepoint Site………is this causing havoc

1. Although When you install Sharepoint it by default configures all the settings to be used with Internet Explorer, but sometimes it may happen that when you installed sharepoint server at that time you were having IE6 or some other version and now you want to switch to some other version.
2. Now when you install this new version every setting made by Sharepoint is gone  and if you open your sharepoint website in the browser it always asks for the credentials
3. So what you have to do is follow these simple steps to again configure Sharepoint Sites to run smoothly with you IE browser
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5. Now in Internet Options go to Local Intranet and make the security lever for this zone to low
6. Then click on the sites tab

 

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Now click on the advanced tab

 

Here in advanced settings make sure that you sharepoint site is included,and if not than just write the url of your site and press add and then close and then press OK

 

 

Now you sharepoint site should work fine in IE7 or others

If you still have some queries than do leave a comment.

There is also another article on how to configure and install sharepoint

http://smallworkarounds.blogspot.com/2008/10/share-point-series-basic-sharepoint.html

Share Point Series:- Basic Sharepoint Installations And Configurations Part1

This is the first article in the series of Sharepoint articles, a lot of stuff will be coming in next few months.

Here in this first article i will just talk about simple steps to follow to install Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2003.

It will refer MOSS 2007 to Sharepoint Server from now on.

It should be made clear in early phase of this article series that Sharepoint Server can only be installed on Windows Server Installations it cant be installed on Windows XP and Windows Vista Installations.

Installing Sharepoint Server

1. Just follow this useful link already present on MSDN to install Sharepoint Server.I will not rewrite the whole thing but i will discuss where ever required and some problems i faced and their solutions.
2. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263202(printer).aspx
3. As satated at last in the above article when the installation finishes than you have to click next and then it will ask you for the configurations,so you can just click next and start the configurations.
4. If you install the standalone install with all basic settings it basically performs 10 diffrent basic configuration tasks and these tasks may take time so be patient.
5. If everythings goes on smoothly after sometime it will say configuration completed successfully.
6. Now at this stage we are ready to test our first sharepoint site.     
7. If this is the scenario with your system than probably you might be running something else on your port 80 such as your Source Controls Server Such as SVN or Source Vault.
8. So first you have to stop those or configure them on another port to work in synchronization with Sharepoint Server.
9. If you are using SVN than you just have to stop the Default running apache server which is uses by default and configures it to use port 80.
10. Make sure if you have made the default install of Sharepoint Server than no other thing is running on port 80 or your default Sharepoint website will not run.