If you're talking a network shared drive, then something simple like htdig gets you most of the way there. You can either crawl the disk like locate(8) does, or crawl the intranet webserver if that's how you're accessing your docs, then you call the hdig CGI and get back your results. Cheap, simple open sourcey, and I'm sure the quality of the results you get back won't be very good :) But it's a central tool that everyone can enjoy, unlike the personal copmuter solutions like beagle and google desktop.
If you want to *spend* money, though, some companies sell network appliances that do all this for you. 2008/5/13 Sebastian Spiess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi all, > > I know this is not a 100% linux related question but it's open source baby > :-) > > On our company network we have a daily growing number of documents in lots > of folders and stuff. Most of it is organised in project folders and has > reoccurring folder structures and file names. > > We are working hard on giving it more and clearer structure but sometimes > it is still hard to find some files. > > I want to suggest to install a search engine which will index our existing > files so that employees can crawl quickly though projects history. > > I've heard of the various desktop search engines like beagle, tracker and > google desktop but are there open source engines which can be run on a > server so that many can connect to it and search? > > Sadly we are relying on MS office (2001), AutoCAD (R16 to 2008) and other > proprietary software in our daily work so those kind of files would need to > be indexed. > > > Does anyone has a idea, something I could investigate further? a software > name? > > > cheers, seb > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
