3 Apr
2004
3 Apr
'04
3:36 a.m.
Hello, all:
I'm looking for a search engine I can use on my network in the house. I
remember a long time ago (1998 or so), before the "browser wars" AltaVista
distributed a "personal AltaVista" that you could use on a personal computer
to allow for indexing/searching a local machine/network. This was at the
time that AltaVista was owned by Digital. I found a lot of announcements of
the product but no actual download points.
Does anyone have this or something else I can use internally? The server
runs Windows NT Server and I can install IIS.
Thanks.
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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3 Apr
3 Apr
4:15 a.m.
Rumor has it that Richard A. Cini may have mentioned these words:
[snip]
Does anyone have this or something else I can use internally? The
server
runs Windows NT Server and I can install IIS.
If nothing else, if you have access to a linux box, you could install
Namazu and samba-mount the NT drives in a subpath of your webserver
(usually Apache) - that should index all of the files necessary over the
network...
I do not know if Namazu is available for win32 directly - Google should
help with that... ;-)
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | for MicroSoft: "We're not the oxy...
zmerch(a)30below.com | ...in oxymoron!"
4:26 a.m.
Roger:
Namazu is indeed available for Windows. Thanks for the name. Here's the
link for those interested...
http://www.namazu.org/windows/
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Roger Merchberger
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 10:16 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Search engines for networks?
Rumor has it that Richard A. Cini may have mentioned these words:
[snip]
Does anyone have this or something else I can use internally? The
server
runs Windows NT Server and I can install IIS.
If nothing else, if you have access to a linux box, you could install
Namazu and samba-mount the NT drives in a subpath of your webserver
(usually Apache) - that should index all of the files necessary over the
network...
I do not know if Namazu is available for win32 directly - Google should
help with that... ;-)
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger | A new truth in advertising slogan
sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | for MicroSoft: "We're not the oxy...
zmerch(a)30below.com | ...in oxymoron!"
6:16 a.m.
Hello, all:
I'm looking for a search engine I can use on my network in the house. I
remember a long time ago (1998 or so), before the "browser wars" AltaVista
distributed a "personal AltaVista" that you could use on a personal computer
to allow for indexing/searching a local machine/network. This was at the
time that AltaVista was owned by Digital. I found a lot of announcements of
the product but no actual download points.
Does anyone have this or something else I can use internally?
The server
runs Windows NT Server and I can install IIS.
Are you looking to run it on just one server, or against all the
systems on your home network? I run SWISHesi on my OpenVMS server.
I'm not sure what all SWISH-E runs on, but it looks like it supports
WinNT among others. http://swish-e.org/ I honestly have no idea
what it would take to get it to run against multiple systems as, all
I care about is running it against one drive.
Zane
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
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6:33 a.m.
Zane:
I have similar desires. I have one server that basically collects all of my
stuff and I want to index that so I can do a search on it from elsewhere in
the house. I'll check out the link. Thanks.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Zane H. Healy
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 12:17 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Search engines for networks?
Hello, all:
I'm looking for a search engine I can use on my network in the house. I
remember a long time ago (1998 or so), before the "browser wars" AltaVista
distributed a "personal AltaVista" that you could use on a personal
computer
to allow for indexing/searching a local
machine/network. This was at the
time that AltaVista was owned by Digital. I found a lot of announcements of
the product but no actual download points.
Does anyone have this or something else I can use internally?
The server
runs Windows NT Server and I can install IIS.
Are you looking to run it on just one server, or against all the
systems on your home network? I run SWISHesi on my OpenVMS server.
I'm not sure what all SWISH-E runs on, but it looks like it supports
WinNT among others. http://swish-e.org/ I honestly have no idea
what it would take to get it to run against multiple systems as, all
I care about is running it against one drive.
Zane
--
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
9:57 a.m.
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Richard A. Cini wrote:
Hello, all:
I'm looking for a search engine I can use on my network in the house. I
remember a long time ago (1998 or so), before the "browser wars" AltaVista
distributed a "personal AltaVista" that you could use on a personal computer
to allow for indexing/searching a local machine/network. This was at the
time that AltaVista was owned by Digital. I found a lot of announcements of
the product but no actual download points.
They used to give away CD-ROMs of it at Comdex.
Unfortunately, the probability of my finding one of them is almost 0
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
5 Apr
5 Apr
5:14 p.m.
At 09:36 AM 4/3/2004, you wrote:
I'm looking for a search engine I can use
on my network in the house. I
remember a long time ago (1998 or so), before the "browser wars" AltaVista
distributed a "personal AltaVista" that you could use on a personal computer
to allow for indexing/searching a local machine/network. This was at the
time that AltaVista was owned by Digital. I found a lot of announcements of
the product but no actual download points.
Does anyone have this or something else I can use internally? The server
runs Windows NT Server and I can install IIS.
I've wished for it - or something comparable - many times since
then, too. I was just talking about it with a friend the other
day. One nice feature was that it could look inside popular
file formats, like Word docs and Zip files.
I don't remember if it was available as a single download.
If I knew a filename of the installer, I might have a ghost of
a chance to find it in a backup. I don't think it required
NT Server. I remember running it on NT 4.0. If you find it,
I'd love to get a copy, too.
- John
5:40 p.m.
Win2K (and I think NT4) has a document indexing service. For Win2K,
goto Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer
Management->Services And Applications->Indexing Service (I think there's
a quicker way to get there, but I use that so infrequently I don't
remember).
You can configure what documents are indexed. You can index PDFs
with a free plugin from Adobe. I think most MS formats are supported by
default. You can specify how often documents are indexed, what
directories or drives, etc.
The problem is the query tool isn't as readily available or as
usable as I would like. But it does work, and it's a little known service.
--jc
John Foust wrote:
At 09:36 AM 4/3/2004, you wrote:
I'm looking for a search engine I can
use on my network in the house. I
remember a long time ago (1998 or so), before the "browser wars" AltaVista
distributed a "personal AltaVista" that you could use on a personal computer
to allow for indexing/searching a local machine/network. This was at the
time that AltaVista was owned by Digital. I found a lot of announcements of
the product but no actual download points.
Does anyone have this or something else I can use internally? The server
runs Windows NT Server and I can install IIS.
I've wished for it - or something comparable - many times since
then, too. I was just talking about it with a friend the other
day. One nice feature was that it could look inside popular
file formats, like Word docs and Zip files.
I don't remember if it was available as a single download.
If I knew a filename of the installer, I might have a ghost of
a chance to find it in a backup. I don't think it required
NT Server. I remember running it on NT 4.0. If you find it,
I'd love to get a copy, too.
- John
6 Apr
6 Apr
12:12 p.m.
At 09:40 PM 4/5/2004, J.C. Wren wrote:
Win2K (and I think NT4) has a document indexing
service. For Win2K, goto Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative
Tools->Computer Management->Services And Applications->Indexing Service (I think
there's a quicker way to get there, but I use that so infrequently I don't
remember).
The problem is the query tool isn't as readily available or as usable as I would
like. But it does work, and it's a little known service.
I remember turning it off. On my Win2000 machine it's under My Computer /
Manage / Services and Applications / Indexing Service / Query the Catalog.
This brings up a form for entering search terms. A link "Tips for searching"
brings up another sentence of help, and on that page, there's a button
"Query Syntax" that's a NOP on my machine.
http://lee.org/reading/computers/Search%20using%20Indexing%20Service.htm
- John
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