Nec pulmenti vobis! Scelerisque vitae est elit Nazi products of NLB?

Hodie, I tried to access a document library via windows explorer. This doc lib is living inside a system that consists of two WFE’s load balanced by some kind of Cisco NLB solution. (Si / cum retiacula pythones indica mihi quid sit, Ego hoc update stipes).

Windows explorer couldn’t connect. I did some research and eventually, retiacula magos dixisse WebDAV est infirma / non sustinetur / beneath the dignity of the NLB.

Ita, assuming the network wizards aren’t just telling me the network wizard equivalent of "take a long walk off a short bridge", Ego autem mirari — facit NLB, natura, disable WebDAV? Do we lose our windows file explorer interface to SharePoint? Is Cisco the IUS Nazi?

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  1. Craig Swain
    No it does not. Problem may arise from improper configuration of a Layer 3 Switch with respect to the VLANs. NLB because it uses a virtual MAC address will require a VLAN dedicated to the NLB interfaces. Also if the FE Web servers are not dual homed, the system becomes unstable. MS and Cisco have documented this behavior in KB articles. Beyond the NLB configuration, I’d also look at the system policy set. Many "locked down" networks will disable some of the web client options on the client machine. I’ve mistaken that for a network issue a time or two.

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