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What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume?

Posted by timothy on from the which-side-of-the-firewall dept.

kriston writes 'Searching data on a shared volume is tedious. If I try to use a Windows desktop search engine on a volume with hundreds of gigabytes the indexing process takes days and the search results are slow and unsatisfying. I'm thinking of an agent that runs on the server that regularly indexes and talks to the desktop machines running the search interface. How do you integrate your desktop search application with your remote file server without forcing each desktop to index the hundred gigabyte volume on its own?'

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  1. 3 steps by Sun.Jedi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1. uninstall windows
    2. install linux
    3. run locate

  2. Re:wow! by cbiltcliffe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe so, but apparently nobody uses Sharepoint.

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