Searching fileshares with SharePoint Server 2007

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re: Searching fileshares with SharePoint Server 2007

lalo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:47:14 GMT

Hello

I was wondering if sharepoint can crawl a virtual directory of shared files on a separate server in our domain. Accessible via a public ip outside our network?

Thanks

re: Searching fileshares with SharePoint Server 2007

ivega — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:40:39 GMT

Response to lalo:

If I unnderstand your question correctly, you want to search an internal share and make it available externally. If that is the case, yes but you have to configure the IIS web site with the correct authentication credentials and ensure that the file share has the correct ACL's for the users accessing the content. Tell me more about the scenario (i.e. forms auth, integrated auth, are you using ISA, etc).

re: Searching fileshares with SharePoint Server 2007

kathyli — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:21:40 GMT

I had a Server mapping problem. I had a sharepoint server with SQL 2005 database. File server is on another server. The account I used to crawl the file server has a read access. I was able to crawl the shared content on that file server. The search result display as file:\\[servername]\sharedlocation, I set up the mapping on SSP as file:\\[servername]\sharedlocation to http:\\websitename\location, but when I do the search, the result display as file:\\[servername]\sharedlocation not http:\\, I did not configure virtual directory, I used MOSS 2007. I thought I alrady make the location webshared, it is able to be searched, just display not right. Do I really need to do it to make the mapping work? If I do, what is the step? Thanks

re: Searching fileshares with SharePoint Server 2007

ivega — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:48:41 GMT

Response to katyhyli:

You need the vdir to ensure that when the user clicks the link for http://servername/resource there is something there to display the content. Otherwise it will be a broken link for the users. After you add the server mapping, you also have to recrawl.