To crawl remote Windows drives with OmniFind Enterprise Edition Version 8.5 Fix Pack 1, apply Hot Fix 1

To configure a Windows file system crawler to crawl remote Windows drives and to detect updates to files without opening the files, you must create an extension of the crawler's configuration file. The character encoding in the XML file must be UTF-8.

Important:

• This function works only for the network drives in a Windows Domain environment. This function does not work for a local drive or in a Workgroup environment.
• To use this function, you must ensure that the Windows user account that is specified in the crawler's configuration (see the Options for a Windows Subdirectory page) has the correct user rights for crawling remote folders. The user account must have the Log on as a batch job user right.

1. Log in as the enterprise search administrator on the index server.
2. Go to the ES_NODE_ROOT/master_config/collection_name.crawler_name directory for the crawler that you want to configure.
3. Create a configuration extension XML file named winfscrawler_ext.xml and include the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <ExtendedProperties>
   <AppendChild XPath="/Crawler/DataSources/Server/Target"
    Name="AccessCheck">Domain</AppendChild>
   </ExtendedProperties>