[thelist] LAN search tool

spinhead evolt at spinhead.com
Wed Dec 12 16:45:45 CST 2001


Sorry; yeah, I looked. Unless it's the only/best option, I'm not ready to
install Cygwin to allow me to compile binaries to install something just to
test it and see if it's the right tool.

Are you saying it has support for MS Word documents and PDFs?

spinhead


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Crockford" <tonyc at boldfish.co.uk>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:32 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] LAN search tool


>
> > 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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