Search document on file system.

Question

I have WSS 3.0 installed on my machine. I have installed SearchServer Express 2008. It search from my document library. it is fine. But i want to search from document files that are located on my file system (e.g c:/ResumeRepository) on same machine.

Is there any settings in search server configuration to get this done. It could be very nice if you could help me out.

Thanks Sachin

Answer 1

Yes there is. In Search Server you have the option to add content sources. A content source can be pretty much anything if you provide a protocol handler for it, but File system searches should work out of the box. In Search Server -> Search Administration find the link to content sources. ad a new content source wiht a file share as a source.

Also, another option is federated search.