diff --git a/src/common/ipc/cluster.ipc.ts b/src/common/ipc/cluster.ipc.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a7b13ba290
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/common/ipc/cluster.ipc.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/**
+ * This channel is broadcast on whenever the cluster fails to list namespaces
+ * during a refresh and no `accessibleNamespaces` have been set.
+ */
+export const ClusterListNamespaceForbiddenChannel = "cluster:list-namespace-forbidden";
+
+export type ListNamespaceForbiddenArgs = [clusterId: string];
+
+export function isListNamespaceForbiddenArgs(args: unknown[]): args is ListNamespaceForbiddenArgs {
+  return args.length === 1 && typeof args[0] === "string";
+}
diff --git a/src/common/ipc/index.ts b/src/common/ipc/index.ts
index c5e864dc75..f67d794626 100644
--- a/src/common/ipc/index.ts
+++ b/src/common/ipc/index.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 export * from "./ipc";
 export * from "./invalid-kubeconfig";
-export * from "./update-available";
+export * from "./update-available.ipc";
+export * from "./cluster.ipc";
 export * from "./type-enforced-ipc";
diff --git a/src/common/ipc/update-available/index.ts b/src/common/ipc/update-available.ipc.ts
similarity index 84%
rename from src/common/ipc/update-available/index.ts
rename to src/common/ipc/update-available.ipc.ts
index 1e3fcf1268..8571c08512 100644
--- a/src/common/ipc/update-available/index.ts
+++ b/src/common/ipc/update-available.ipc.ts
@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@ import { UpdateInfo } from "electron-updater";
 export const UpdateAvailableChannel = "update-available";
 export const AutoUpdateLogPrefix = "[UPDATE-CHECKER]";
 
-/**
- * [<back-channel>, <update-info>]
- */
-export type UpdateAvailableFromMain = [string, UpdateInfo];
+export type UpdateAvailableFromMain = [backChannel: string, updateInfo: UpdateInfo];
 
 export function areArgsUpdateAvailableFromMain(args: unknown[]): args is UpdateAvailableFromMain {
   if (args.length !== 2) {
@@ -32,7 +29,7 @@ export type BackchannelArg = {
   now: boolean;
 };
 
-export type UpdateAvailableToBackchannel = [BackchannelArg];
+export type UpdateAvailableToBackchannel = [updateDecision: BackchannelArg];
 
 export function areArgsUpdateAvailableToBackchannel(args: unknown[]): args is UpdateAvailableToBackchannel {
   if (args.length !== 1) {
diff --git a/src/main/cluster.ts b/src/main/cluster.ts
index 169c99c5a8..19f0945c3e 100644
--- a/src/main/cluster.ts
+++ b/src/main/cluster.ts
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ import type { IMetricsReqParams } from "../renderer/api/endpoints/metrics.api";
 import type { WorkspaceId } from "../common/workspace-store";
 import { action, comparer, computed, observable, reaction, toJS, when } from "mobx";
 import { apiKubePrefix } from "../common/vars";
-import { broadcastMessage, InvalidKubeconfigChannel } from "../common/ipc";
+import { broadcastMessage, InvalidKubeconfigChannel, ClusterListNamespaceForbiddenChannel } from "../common/ipc";
 import { ContextHandler } from "./context-handler";
-import { AuthorizationV1Api, CoreV1Api, KubeConfig, V1ResourceAttributes } from "@kubernetes/client-node";
+import { AuthorizationV1Api, CoreV1Api, HttpError, KubeConfig, V1ResourceAttributes } from "@kubernetes/client-node";
 import { Kubectl } from "./kubectl";
 import { KubeconfigManager } from "./kubeconfig-manager";
 import { loadConfig, validateKubeConfig } from "../common/kube-helpers";
@@ -690,10 +690,14 @@ export class Cluster implements ClusterModel, ClusterState {
       return namespaceList.body.items.map(ns => ns.metadata.name);
     } catch (error) {
       const ctx = (await this.getProxyKubeconfig()).getContextObject(this.contextName);
+      const namespaceList = [ctx.namespace].filter(Boolean);
 
-      if (ctx.namespace) return [ctx.namespace];
+      if (namespaceList.length === 0 && error instanceof HttpError && error.statusCode === 403) {
+        logger.info("[CLUSTER]: listing namespaces is forbidden, broadcasting", { clusterId: this.id });
+        broadcastMessage(ClusterListNamespaceForbiddenChannel, this.id);
+      }
 
-      return [];
+      return namespaceList;
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/+cluster-settings/cluster-settings.tsx b/src/renderer/components/+cluster-settings/cluster-settings.tsx
index 4ec8e1ccdd..40472be1ec 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/+cluster-settings/cluster-settings.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/+cluster-settings/cluster-settings.tsx
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import { clusterStore } from "../../../common/cluster-store";
 import { PageLayout } from "../layout/page-layout";
 import { requestMain } from "../../../common/ipc";
 import { clusterActivateHandler, clusterRefreshHandler } from "../../../common/cluster-ipc";
+import { navigation } from "../../navigation";
 
 interface Props extends RouteComponentProps<IClusterSettingsRouteParams> {
 }
@@ -30,6 +31,10 @@ export class ClusterSettings extends React.Component<Props> {
   }
 
   componentDidMount() {
+    const { hash } = navigation.location;
+
+    document.getElementById(hash.slice(1))?.scrollIntoView();
+
     disposeOnUnmount(this, [
       reaction(() => this.cluster, this.refreshCluster, {
         fireImmediately: true,
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/+cluster-settings/components/cluster-accessible-namespaces.tsx b/src/renderer/components/+cluster-settings/components/cluster-accessible-namespaces.tsx
index b538a59a95..d1ad7dbeef 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/+cluster-settings/components/cluster-accessible-namespaces.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/+cluster-settings/components/cluster-accessible-namespaces.tsx
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export class ClusterAccessibleNamespaces extends React.Component<Props> {
   render() {
     return (
       <>
-        <SubTitle title="Accessible Namespaces" />
+        <SubTitle title="Accessible Namespaces" id="accessible-namespaces" />
         <p>This setting is useful for manually specifying which namespaces you have access to. This is useful when you do not have permissions to list namespaces.</p>
         <EditableList
           placeholder="Add new namespace..."
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/app.scss b/src/renderer/components/app.scss
index 6144b1f265..e2ab1df907 100755
--- a/src/renderer/components/app.scss
+++ b/src/renderer/components/app.scss
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@
   color: white;
 }
 
+*:target {
+  color: $textColorAccent;
+}
+
 html {
   font-size: 62.5%; // 1 rem == 10px
   color: $textColorPrimary;
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/layout/sub-title.tsx b/src/renderer/components/layout/sub-title.tsx
index 467fc40bbd..dd4afdba8d 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/layout/sub-title.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/layout/sub-title.tsx
@@ -6,19 +6,18 @@ interface Props {
   className?: string;
   title: React.ReactNode;
   compact?: boolean; // no bottom padding
+  id?: string;
 }
 
 export class SubTitle extends React.Component<Props> {
   render() {
-    const { compact, title, children } = this.props;
-    let { className } = this.props;
-
-    className = cssNames("SubTitle", className, {
+    const { className, compact, title, children, id } = this.props;
+    const classNames = cssNames("SubTitle", className, {
       compact,
     });
 
     return (
-      <div className={className}>
+      <div className={classNames} id={id}>
         {title} {children}
       </div>
     );
diff --git a/src/renderer/ipc/index.tsx b/src/renderer/ipc/index.tsx
index 5f5e04d9d2..ccbeef4797 100644
--- a/src/renderer/ipc/index.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/ipc/index.tsx
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 import React from "react";
 import { ipcRenderer, IpcRendererEvent } from "electron";
-import { areArgsUpdateAvailableFromMain, UpdateAvailableChannel, onCorrect, UpdateAvailableFromMain, BackchannelArg } from "../../common/ipc";
+import { areArgsUpdateAvailableFromMain, UpdateAvailableChannel, onCorrect, UpdateAvailableFromMain, BackchannelArg, ClusterListNamespaceForbiddenChannel, isListNamespaceForbiddenArgs, ListNamespaceForbiddenArgs } from "../../common/ipc";
 import { Notifications, notificationsStore } from "../components/notifications";
 import { Button } from "../components/button";
 import { isMac } from "../../common/vars";
 import { invalidKubeconfigHandler } from "./invalid-kubeconfig-handler";
+import { clusterStore } from "../../common/cluster-store";
+import { navigate } from "../navigation";
+import { clusterSettingsURL } from "../components/+cluster-settings";
 
 function sendToBackchannel(backchannel: string, notificationId: string, data: BackchannelArg): void {
   notificationsStore.remove(notificationId);
@@ -42,7 +45,8 @@ function UpdateAvailableHandler(event: IpcRendererEvent, ...[backchannel, update
           <Button active outlined label="No" onClick={() => sendToBackchannel(backchannel, notificationId, { doUpdate: false })} />
         </div>
       </div>
-    ), {
+    ),
+    {
       id: notificationId,
       onClose() {
         sendToBackchannel(backchannel, notificationId, { doUpdate: false });
@@ -51,6 +55,42 @@ function UpdateAvailableHandler(event: IpcRendererEvent, ...[backchannel, update
   );
 }
 
+const listNamespacesForbiddenHandlerDisplayedAt = new Map<string, number>();
+const intervalBetweenNotifications = 1000 * 60; // 60s
+
+function ListNamespacesForbiddenHandler(event: IpcRendererEvent, ...[clusterId]: ListNamespaceForbiddenArgs): void {
+  const lastDisplayedAt = listNamespacesForbiddenHandlerDisplayedAt.get(clusterId);
+  const wasDisplayed = Boolean(lastDisplayedAt);
+  const now = Date.now();
+
+  if (!wasDisplayed || (now - lastDisplayedAt) > intervalBetweenNotifications) {
+    listNamespacesForbiddenHandlerDisplayedAt.set(clusterId, now);
+  } else  {
+    // don't bother the user too often
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const notificationId = `list-namespaces-forbidden:${clusterId}`;
+
+  Notifications.info(
+    (
+      <div className="flex column gaps">
+        <b>Add Accessible Namespaces</b>
+        <p>Cluster <b>{clusterStore.active.name}</b> does not have permissions to list namespaces. Please add the namespaces you have access to.</p>
+        <div className="flex gaps row align-left box grow">
+          <Button active outlined label="Go to Accessible Namespaces Settings" onClick={()=> {
+            navigate(clusterSettingsURL({ params: { clusterId }, fragment: "accessible-namespaces" }));
+            notificationsStore.remove(notificationId);
+          }} />
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    ),
+    {
+      id: notificationId,
+    }
+  );
+}
+
 export function registerIpcHandlers() {
   onCorrect({
     source: ipcRenderer,
@@ -59,4 +99,10 @@ export function registerIpcHandlers() {
     verifier: areArgsUpdateAvailableFromMain,
   });
   onCorrect(invalidKubeconfigHandler);
+  onCorrect({
+    source: ipcRenderer,
+    channel: ClusterListNamespaceForbiddenChannel,
+    listener: ListNamespacesForbiddenHandler,
+    verifier: isListNamespaceForbiddenArgs,
+  });
 }