[thelist] LAN search tool

Tony Crockford tonyc at boldfish.co.uk
Wed Dec 12 15:29:00 CST 2001


> After a bit of rethinking, we're considering starting our indexing and
> search strategy from scratch. I think SiteServer is about to get the dump.
>
> We have a Windows NT/2000, Unix, Linux, and Network Appliance (shared
> Win/*nix box) and are looking for a tool to index these types of files for
> full-text searching, maintaining user permissions even in the search
> results:*
> .txt
> .html
> .doc
> .xls
> .pdf (I know this one's a stretch)
> probably others that I'm too fried to remember but I suspect it's not
> possible anyway, so what difference does it make?
>
> *As in, we know if the user sees results but tries to access something he
> doesn't have at least read access to, he'll be denied. We don't even want
> them to see it in the search results. SiteServer does this well
> for Windows
> only implementations.
>
> Am I dreaming?
>
> spinhead

have you looked at HT:dig?

You can find HT:dig (open source - Free!) here:

http://www.htdig.org/

and win 32 installation instructions here:

<http://www.htdig.org/files/contrib/guides/Installing_on_Win32.html>

HTH

YMMV





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