Indexing Windows Share

andreas.eriksson · Post by **andreas.eriksson** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:40 am

Hello!

I've been searching the Message Boards as well as the support documentation, but have yet to find what I'm looking for: a step-by-step instruction of how to index a windows (2000) file share from a Thunderstone Search Appliance (linux).

As far as I can see, I have succeeded in mounting the share via the Webmin interface:

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Mounted as: lifile002
Type: Windows Networking Filesystem (smbfs)
Location: \\lifile002\it_support_documentation

Disk Usage:
Partition %Used Available Used Total
/ 9% 30G 3.0G 36G
/log 18% 771M 159M 980M
//lifile002/it_support_documentation
/mnt/locallifile002 94% 20G 280G 300G

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Based on this, If I want to index the file share, what should my Base Url look like?

Kind regards,

Andreas

Post by **mark** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:28 am

See "Indexing File Servers" under "Procedures and Examples".

Base URL would be file://lilfile002/it_support_documentation/

Though it doesn't look like it's mounted correctly. You may find the "Network Filesystems & Shares" under "Maintenance" easier to use than the Webmin interface.

andreas.eriksson · Post by **andreas.eriksson** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:05 am

Problem solved, thanks!

(I never found "Indexing File Servers" under "Procedures and Examples", but things worked a whole lot better using "Network Filesystems & Shares" under "Maintenance".)

/Andreas

Post by **mark** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:23 am

Make sure you're reading the documentation on your appliance, not the Webinator docs on our web site.

andreas.eriksson · Post by **andreas.eriksson** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:24 am

Good point - I'll start doing that instead...