[dba-Tech] Google Desktop, search on network drives?

MartyConnelly martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Fri May 5 13:08:29 CDT 2006


Oh yes you can introduce other security issues with the Enterprise edition
(meant for multiple networked computers can even hook up remote home 
computers)
Again I have only used the Desktop Version.

Gustav Brock wrote:

>Thanks Marty
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>Certainly something to consider and/or test as a client asked for advice ...
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>/gustav
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>>>>martyconnelly at shaw.ca 05-05-2006 19:20:34 >>>
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>I just use as a desktop tool so limited knowledge
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>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.
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>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 
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> look up
> network shares
> mapped drives
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>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 
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>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)
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>Another way is to run GDS on the networked machine and use the
>following tool:  http://dnka.com/ 
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>Gustav Brock wrote:
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>>Hi All
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>>Anyone having experience with this searching on mapped network drives?
>>Is that doable? And if so, recommendable?
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