We are using Windows Load Balancing Services (WLBS). One of the things that I do notice, is that if I create a File Share on one of the physical hosts, I am able browse to that file share using the clustered-ip address. This might be a 'opinion' question, but I haven't been able to find much literature on file shares in particular with wlbs. Is this a recommendation configuration? Are there any limitations? What about when the share contains different sets of content on both hosts?

For instance: Three 'hostnames' - host1 (physical1), host2 (physical2), and cluster.

I create the following shares: \physical1\myshare \physical2\myshare

What I notice is that i can see:

\cluster\myshare

I'm guessing that this is read-only, and that there's no file synchronization. But what happens if they are in fact out of sync, what would a network browser see then?

Thanks for your time!