Our server is SBS2K sp3 with XP workstations. Internet has been working OK,
but recently we have been getting a problem with IE.

When IE is first fired up on a workstation we get an error 403 forbidden - ISA
server has blocked connection to the specified URL. If we click refresh, the
page loads OK and all subsequent activity is fine for that session. If we
close and reopen IE the problem repeats.

The only thing that has changed on the system is that we set up a group policy
to redirect "my documents" to the "company" shared folder and disabled
"offline files" on each workstation.

Any ideas?

Steve Gray

RE: IE - 403 forbidden on first attempt, but refreshes OK by dabutleronline

dabutleronline
Thu Jul 10 12:32:11 CDT 2003

Hi Steve,

Thank you for using Microsoft Technical Support Newsgroups.

Make sure that each client has the SBS server specified as the proxy server on
the Connections tab for IE and disable Automatically Detect Settings.

Once again, thank you for using the newsgroups.

Best Regards,



David Butler - MCSE NT4/2000
Microsoft Technical Support

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Re: IE - 403 forbidden on first attempt, but refreshes OK by Steve

Steve
Tue Jul 22 17:00:04 CDT 2003

I've found it!

I hadn't noticed before, but on all the workstations the IE server address was
set up as http://server-name. Deleting the http:// cured the problem. I have
no idea how it got set up like that.

Steve Gray



On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:13:11 +0100, Steve Gray <spam@me.not> wrote:

>Thank you for your response and I'm sorry it has taken a while for me to get
>back on this topic. The IE connections tab was already set up as you
>describe, so the problem still persists. Any other ideas?
>
>To recap: IE gets error "403 forbidden URL" when first activated. Refresh
>successfully loads the page and all subsequent page requests are OK until IE
>is restarted.