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Asked: 2009-05-19 06:28:34 +0800 CST

Windows 2003 server failing to search on a network share when looking for "A word or phrase in the file"

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I've got a Windows 2003 terminal server and my users often search though remote text files for order numbers. We previously had a windows 2000 terminal server and the normal windows find dialog worked fine. Now with windows 2003 we always get zero results returned. Is there anything I need to tweak to get this working again?

Indexing services is enabled, everything else is on the default settings.

windows windows-server-2003

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    I think you need to adjust the file types that are being indexed on the server. Here's a MS KB article that references the issue.

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  2. I found my solution, even with indexing disabled I had to go to "indexing service" and enable "Index files with unknown extensions" and the files started showing up in the searches.

    I used Microsoft KB Article 209173: Using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion may not work for reference.

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