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Subject:RE: Searching remote servers in your own company From:"Andrew Warren" <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com> To:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:59:17 -0700
McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
> If I [search] a company fileserver (that lives in another city), the
> search eventually times out... but only after tying up the bandwidth
> for my co-workers. That's because all the search action happens on my
> computer, using my CPU, but creating millions of transactions down
> the fiber to the server.
>
> It strikes me that there _must_ exist server-side search utilities
Kevin:
There are. Do a Google search for:
remote "google desktop search"
and you'll find lots of web servers that integrate with Google Desktop
Search to provide exactly what you want.
-Andrew
=== Andrew Warren - awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com
=== Synaptics, Inc - Santa Clara, CA
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