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| Indexing Network Shares Is there any way to have Vista's search function index files on network shares (on a server) in addition to files on an individual PC? When I try to add search locations the dialog seems to restrict me to files on my PC. |
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| Re: Indexing Network Shares If Vista is installed on the computer you are trying to access over the network, tell Vista on that machine to Index the location you want searched. If the network computer you are accessing is running XP or Windows 2003 server, install Windows Desktop Search from the Microsoft Web Site, and then add the files you want to acccess to the Desktop Search Index on that machine. Vista will then 'query' the network computer you are accessing, and Network computer will use the index it has built to return the results to you. This makes searches on Network computer super fast as each computer is maintaining the index of their local files and your computer is not tasked with this responsibility. Trying to remotely index a location would be painfully slow on most networks, as Vista not only index tags, names, etc. but also scans the entire file contents and is capable of indexing advanced file contents including ink, and embedded audio with keyword recognition for applications like OneNote. Basically why make your computer do the work or create redudant indexes, when the Network computer should be maintaining this information already. "DWAnderson" <dwa@alumni.uchicago.edu> wrote in message news:1172680017.254786.130470@z35g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...[color=blue] > Is there any way to have Vista's search function index files on > network shares (on a server) in addition to files on an individual PC? > When I try to add search locations the dialog seems to restrict me to > files on my PC. >[/color] |
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