John Vieth wrote: > Just one more way Microsoft tries to control which browser we use. A > lot of people won't even try Firefox once they realize authentication > for their intranet apps is less automatic than with Windows.
I agree with your point as to how Microsoft tries to control what browser you use; but as an aside, the specific issue discussed here can well be done using FireFox (0.8+, I think.) FireFox supports NTLM authentication; you just need to enable it for specific URIs. To do this, open up FireFox, and type "about:config" in the address bar. This gives you a set of configurable options that lack a UI dialog of their own. Search for "ntlm", you'll get two entries. Select the one named "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris" and add a comma-separated list of URIs where you want NTLM enabled. Then again, as a matter of writing compliant code, I'd heavily recommend disabling NTLM Authentication on the server and using something that is supported by every browser. You do realize that with this approach, you would have to go change the config for every client. > like how the Terminal Services client and the Windows Update require > ActiveX controls running on IE, and therefore won't work with Firefox. I look at IE not as a browser that supports ActiveX, but as a client application for Windows Update. That way, it makes more sense, because it does only one job and nothing else. :) BTW, if any of you folks tried to delete iexplore.exe to prevent (other) users from running IE, you would have seen that it gets replaced with the official version in seconds. I figured the best way to prevent IE from running at all (the browser, not the renderer) is to use NTFS authentication to deny Execute permissions to Everyone. Works great! -- Regards, Manas. PhotoWizard 0.1 : http://www.manastungare.com/projects/photowizard/ A batch image convertor that performs simple image processing tasks. ___________________________________________________________________________ Manas Tungare, http://www.manastungare.com/ Ph.D. Student, Virginia Tech Computer Science. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/17folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Home : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/active-server-pages --------------------------------------------------------------------- Post : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/active-server-pages/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
