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Subject:RE: Searching remote servers in your own company From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:20:11 -0400
Yes, as file servers... which is why searching that's instigated at my
desktop is so bandwidth intensive and so agonizingly slow. Every file
must be individually requested, served up, searched (by my PC), closed,
the next one opened... and so on. But I do have that Remote Access
request in. I hope that on Monday I'll get a response e-mail with
something more encouraging than "bwaa-hahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaa".
K
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From: John Posada [mailto:jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 15:28
To: McLauchlan, Kevin
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Searching remote servers in your own company
You must have some kind of access to them already...you're searching on
them.
On 4/25/08, McLauchlan, Kevin <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
Good point. I'll have to see if IT Dept. is willing to permit Remote
Desktop access by the unwashed.
No doubt they have the Remote Desktop server installed for their own
access, but whether they'll let anybody else touch their babies... :-)
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From: John Posada [mailto:jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 15:14
To: McLauchlan, Kevin
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Searching remote servers in your own company
Kevin...I don't know if this is THE answer, but when I need to search a
remote server, I first create a Remote Desktop Connection to that
server, then launch the search from within that server. This eliminates
the traffic between my machine and the server.
On 4/25/08, McLauchlan, Kevin <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
search) and it comes back with some results. If I do the same search on
a company fileserver (that lives in another city), the search eventually
times out... but only after tying up the bandwidth for my co-workers.
That's because all the search action happens on my computer, using my
CPU, but creating millions of transactions down the fiber to the server.
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