Accessing Vibe WebDav Folders from Windows 7 Clients By Using My Network Places or Map Network Drive Does Not Work

Access Gateway Appliance setup to accelerate a Novell Vibe server. All communication with the server via the proxy works fine for users accessing Vibe resources via the browser. When these same users access the Vibe webdav folders through Windows 'My network places' or 'Map Network drive' features, access to the files fail from Windows 7 clients.

Need to make the following configuration changes to the Access Gateway Appliance (AGA) setup:

a) Set the following 'Advanced Option' on the AGA

 NAGGlobalOptions AllowMSWebDavMiniRedir to on

b) On the client machine perform the following steps:

(i). Add the Vibe and Access Manager URLs to the browser’s trusted site and add the trusted root certificates from the Vibe and AGA server certificate to the browsers Trusted Root Certification Authorities.

The relevant key points when setting up Vibe within an Access Manager environment are 

- The Vibe server must be set up with either (a) digest auth (HTTP or HTTPS), or (b)
basic auth over HTTPS with a server certificate meeting the following three
specific requirements:

Requirement 1 (=CR1)

The server certificate is "trusted" by the Windows 7 computer. For this, the
server certificate must be signed by a trusted CA accepted by Windows 7 such as
VeriSign, Thawte, and Equifax, etc. If self-signed certificate, it must be
explicitly imported into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store on
Windows 7 computer. Detailed instructions will be given in the solutions
section to show how to do this using IE 8.

Requirement 2 (=CR2)

The certificate must match your site URL. In other word, the certificate must
have been issued to a name that precisely matches the domain name of the URL
you're using it for.

Requirement 3 (=CR3)

The certificate must not have been expired. That is, it should have valid date
range.

If not all of the above conditions are met, we do know that it will not work.
Please double check to ensure that your test followed this guideline.