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by ekyu

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My company is using MS Proxy Server 2.0 to control the access to the Internet. Now we want to allow all the employees in the company to be able to access to one particular web site without compromising the control of the Proxy Server. The servers are all running on Windows 2000. Can anyone suggest any solution to this? thank you!

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by mshavrov

Do you have problem accessing this website through Proxy Server? Is it local server? Are you able to connect to server without Proxy Server or you have some "access-lists" which prohibits to access Internet without Proxy server?

In general, if it's local server, or if you may access it without Proxy Server, you may just add it to "exceptions list" in IE Proxy Settings ("don't use proxy to access these servers"). If you have access-lists in your router, which strictly deny access without proxy server, you may add "permit" clause for one specific site. And, as I remember, you may add this particular server into Proxy Server to bypass caching or parse traffic.

Good luck.

by ekyu

The web site that we want to allow access is an Internet web site, for example www.hp.com, the current setting is all the connection to the Internet must pass through the Proxy Server, be authenticated about the user's access right before going to the Firewall, then go out out network. Now what we wish to accomplish is allowing those without the access right to the Internet to be able to access to this particular Internet web site only.

by cyskon

I think that that maybe be a bit difficult to do as MS Proxy doesn't have a profile option for you to create seperate user/group profiles. The problem is that MS Proxy has two options when it comes to access control.

Either ALLOW all website except the ones listed. or
DENY all website except the ones listed.

This now causes you to have to make a list of all the sites that you want to allow/deny for the process to work.

So that prevents you from having one group that can access the interenet and one that can only access certian sites.

Maybe what you can do is pull the site down locally and have those users access it from the local cache.

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