Crawl a file server

pete.smith · Post by **pete.smith** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:41 pm

Is that possible? There is no http:// address for this - I have no idea what the base url would be. Plus, there are permissions on the files, and I can't show sensitive hr data to people. Just a thought provoker. Thanks guys.

Post by **mark** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:21 pm

The appliance and full texis products can crawl file servers and do result authentication so users only see results for files they are authorized to see.

pete.smith · Post by **pete.smith** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:21 pm

mark, I have the full texis product, how would I start a profile for that?

Post by **mark** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:49 pm

Mount the server to be walked to the machine running texis. Then use a "file:" url to walk it. There may be some tweaks to dowalk and/or search required, I'm not sure off the top of my head.

pete.smith · Post by **pete.smith** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:59 am

Mark, how would the server know who is logged in? We dont have any auth on our intranet, just the file servers have nt style auth.

Post by **Kai** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:11 am

The Login Info field from a Webinator profile gets passed for Windows NTLM file:// authentication, via <urlcp user|pass> just like HTTP Basic etc.

(If the machine that Texis is running on is non-Windows, you'll have to add <urlcp fileroot /mount/dir> to the dowalk script, where you mounted the fileeystems on /mount/dir/hostname.)