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Search index on Windows Server 2003 jarod.legault 01-17-2006
Posted by jarod.legault on January 17, 2006, 4:05 pm
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Most people in our office run Windows Desktop Search on their
workstations (Windows XP Pro) and scan the file server because that's
where most of our files are stored. Is there a way to just have the
server maintain an index (Indexing Service in Server 2003), and have
each workstation search that index? It would save hard drive space,
network traffic, computer resources, etc. Are there any free clients
that can search the index on the server? Can Windows Desktop Search be
configured to search the index on the server? Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Thanks.


Posted by mrdavey on January 17, 2006, 6:18 pm
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I'm having the same problem. Hopefully MS will add this to WDS future
releases.

The only (temporary) solution i have found is to use Google Desktop
Search in conjunction with the plugin called DNKA (http://dnka.com/).
Basically it lets you search the GDS index remotely. This works quite
well.

David

jarod.legault@gmail.com wrote:
> Most people in our office run Windows Desktop Search on their
> workstations (Windows XP Pro) and scan the file server because that's
> where most of our files are stored. Is there a way to just have the
> server maintain an index (Indexing Service in Server 2003), and have
> each workstation search that index? It would save hard drive space,
> network traffic, computer resources, etc. Are there any free clients
> that can search the index on the server? Can Windows Desktop Search be
> configured to search the index on the server? Any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks.


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