Installing Drupal

I've just installed Drupal and it all seems to be working fine so far.

But is there an easy way so that I can force the comment viewing options to be
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For all users on all pages

i.e. users don't get any choice about how pages are displayed.

At the moment when I log in I see

"This is a test"
yadda yadda yadda
1 comment
And you have to click on the 1 comment link to make the comment display.

I'd like that comment (and all the others) displayed by default)

Steve

Hi

I am behind a firewall and proxy that requires authentication. My news feeds do not work due to this. Lets say i get away from the authentication part but still i need to make it go thro the proxy server though

How do i make this happen

TIA
Ramesh

I'm running Drupal 4.2.0-rc and have just run into an issue when typing in Blog entries (I'm sure it will be the same with static pages and what not too). If I create a link in my blog entry, the href changes to put a back-slash infront of the double quotes and when I look at my link, it no longer is a link to where I typed in, but prefixed with my domain name.

I would like to know how-to create/enable 'Block configuration' in User Profile i.e. to enable each user to choose blocks that are displayed by editing a user account?

Are some additional/specific modules required for this or is it something that needs to be enabled/disabled through admin pages?

Thanks in advance for the help....

I installed and configured this module and now I do not know where to go to upload images or make galleries... I did a search for attached_file but the searched turned up no results.

Am I doing something wrong? I enabled it too... it should be there... somewhere...

I've got recent 4.2.0 and htmlarea module running successfully. However, the htmlarea module seems to force it's width out much wider than some themes will cleanly support (it works, but it forces a left/right scrollbar, and changes the width greater than the current browsers existing width.

I've checked out the htmlarea.module file and the htmlarea.js files, and some others, to see if it was hardcoded in there somewhere. I only see references to "width=auto", but not sure how it's determining what "auto" should be.