Hi, I'm with the same problem! and I bypass the proxy for that sharepoint URL. any tip about how to figure out is welcome thanks 2012/5/21 Paolo Supino <paolo.supino@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi > > I was approached by a user that has problems accessing a sharepoint > share external to our company and I'm lost in finding the cause of the > failure and a fix for it... > > The remote sharepoint site (running sharepoint 14 on IIS 7.5) is > accessed via a battery of Squid proxies (2.6.STABLE21, RHEL 5.5) that > authenticate to the company's windows 2003 domain via kerberos and an > external helper that checks group membership. When trying to access > the remote sharepoint site via the URL: > http://www.example.com/sites/share-name it repeatedly prompts the user > with username/password (the sharepoint site uses NTLM authentication). > Running TCP dump on the proxy through which the request is being > forwarded I noticed that the sharepoint site rejects the > username/password pair and sends back "HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized". > > Authentication isn't rejected completely when using Internet Explorer > 6 and explicity asking for default.aspx ASP page by entering the URL: > http://www.example.com/sites/share-name/default.aspx, but some elemnts > in the page aren't loaded causing it to be impossible to work with the > files in the share. > > > I apologize for the lack of information (again, I'm lost). Anyone can > try and help me solve the problem (if it is solvable)? > > > > TIA > Paolo