QlikView and Qlik Sense with Firefox authentication: how to enable and configure NTLM

[Daniele_Purrone]

Firefox may ask for a username and password when accessing the Management Console, Hub, or QlikView AccessPoint.

To use NTLM authentication with Firefox, the preference "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris" needs to be set. This allows Firefox to pass the NTLM authentication information to a web server.

On non-Windows systems, like Linux or Mac, the Access Point may get stuck on "logging in", In that case, NTLM needs to be set to version 1.

Environment

• QlikView, all versions
• Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows, all versions

Firefox doesn't automatically pass the authentication like IE or Chrome does.
Also, as part of Firefox 30’s release, Mozilla made a change to disable support for NT LAN Manager version 1 (NTLMv1) network authentication. This change affects sites using Microsoft’s SharePoint or IIS services. The Windows version of Firefox 30 should switch to using NTLMv2 authentication automatically, but NTLMv2 is not supported by Firefox on non-Windows platforms.

On Windows systems

1. Open Firefox and type about:config in the address bar
2. In the Filter field, type network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
3. Double-click the name of the preference
4. Enter the URLs of the sites you wish to pass NTLM authentication to in the form of: http://intranet.company.com,http://email.company.lan
   • You can use a comma-separated list in this field.
   • Specify the port if not using a standard port, such as http://intranet.company.com:8080
5. Close and reopen Firefox

On non-Windows systems (Mac / Linux / Unix):

1. Open Firefox and type about:config in the address bar
2. In the Filter field, type network.negotiate-auth.allow-insecure-ntlm-v1
3. Double-click the name of the preference to change the value from false to true
4. Close and reopen Firefox