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access denied searching mapped drive via windows explorer

when searching a mapped drive in a windows server 2008 environment i receive an access denied error message in windows explorer. this message happens with windows 7 professional 32-bit only. Can anybody help me? Thanks.
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Locate a particular string in a directory

I want to do the following: cat *.xml | grep some_string_here This tells me if a particular string exists in an xml file in a directory. Unfortunately it does not tell me which file. how can I do this better? cat command does not see me to have an…
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How can I quickly search my entire filesystem in ubuntu?

I need to quickly search my entire filesystem for a string. Is there a program that will index my disk and allow me to do this? I've tried tracker and google desktop, but they don't seem to allow me to recursively index root (/).
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Federated Search vs Enterprise Search - How do you decide?

We're looking at our Enterprise Search Strategy (by "Enterprise" I mean business), and I'm putting togther a paper which includes the pros and cons of both. I'm wondering what would drive a decison either way. I imagine a certain situation would…
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Search result redirect virus

I'm stumped. I'm up against a virus on a desktop PC that has hijcaked all search results (Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc.) in both IE and Firefox, and it happens to both accounts that log into the machine, leading me away from being user account based. …
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Should I run weekly full crawls on Sharepoint

I work on Sharepoint 2007 intranet with 500+Gb of documents. Running a full crawl takes over 48 hours. When we first set Sharepoint up, and it was much smaller, we ran Full crawl jobs on a weekly basis, and incrementals each night. Is there any…
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Is there a way to avoid reindexing files on each Microsoft Search Service crawl?

I need to index heavyweight format files with Microsoft Search Service. I created an IFilter and a backend that stores indexing results. So now if extracting text from some given file takes too long and the IFilter is shut down (the built-in…
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Hard Drive filling up quickly and constantly

We have a few programs that do a lot of stuff with file management and logs. I think one of the programs is filling up the hard drive, but I have no idea which one or how exactly its happening. Is there any way to search a drive, like C: for files…
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Netbios lookups fail over vpn?

Over VPN clients do not seem to be using their DNS search suffix list. When attempting to ping a netbios name, the client appends it's own domain name to the lookup. The dns server responds that there no such name. The client then does nothing. From…
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Search Files (Preferably with index) on Windows 2000 Server

I have many files on a windows server 2000 machine that is setup to act as a networked disk drive, is there anyway I can index the files and make that index available as a search to more people than just me? Bonus if the index can look inside of…
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SharePoint Search: processing filenames containing underscores

We use SharePoint Server 2007 to allow employees to search network file shares, but it seems that underscores in filenames are not treated as word separators when indexing the files. As a result, a search for chocolate will: match "chocolate…
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Solr vs 'this' word

There is a smal problem with solr. When I try to search text containing the word 'this' by issuing 'this' in the search console, solr doesn't find anything. However there are no problems with other words. Is it sort of reserved word or something…
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Modify database for the SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search administration web site

Does anyone know how to modify the database settings for the Enterprise Search administration web site? When you configure the service application via Central Administration, SharePoint just decides to use the default database server and gives a…
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Google Search Appliance: Limiting Number of Results

I am attempting to limit the number of results that are displayed as a result of dynamic result clustering on the Google Search Appliance. I've looked through the XSLT, but I've only come across the following two user-modifiable options: