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Subject:Re: Searching remote servers in your own company From:"John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> Date:Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:14:03 -0400
Kevin...I don't know if this is THE answer, but when I need to search a
remote server, I first create a Remote Desktop Connection to that server,
then launch the search from within that server. This eliminates the traffic
between my machine and the server.
On 4/25/08, McLauchlan, Kevin <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
>
> search) and it comes back with some results. If I do the same search on
> 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.
>
> --
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
NYMetro STC President
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