Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Fri May 5 12:28:21 CDT 2006
Thanks Marty Certainly something to consider and/or test as a client asked for advice ... /gustav >>> martyconnelly at shaw.ca 05-05-2006 19:20:34 >>> I just use as a desktop tool so limited knowledge There could be security problems and reindexing with a network drive has glitches. I can't remember how much google actually stores offsite for 30 days with certain options. You even get reindexing problems with attached USB and firewire drives. See Developers Group archives http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop-Developer?lnk=li look up network shares mapped drives There is new Google Desktop 3 beta for german dutch danish etc only released 2 weeks ago. Search Across Computers introduces network security problems http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2006/02/search-across-enterprise-desktop.html With the Google Desktop 2 handling network shares There are 2 ways to do this - one is to map the network drive and add it to the GDS search path via a registry key (see http://users.tns.net/~skingery/firefox/GDS_Tips.html) Another way is to run GDS on the networked machine and use the following tool: http://dnka.com/ Gustav Brock wrote: >Hi All > >Anyone having experience with this searching on mapped network drives? >Is that doable? And if so, recommendable?