samba - Jan 2010 - web based index of samba share contents

Anyone know of a good opensource product to give google desktop like search 
functionality via web browser of a set of samba shares running on a Debian 
5.x server. It needs to be able to fully index word, excel, openoffice and 
text files at a minimum.  It should also have some form of ACL control so 
that only certain users can actually search the index for specific smb 
shares.

In this particular instance, there is a general office share which everyone 
should be able to use and a partners/owners/managers share which should be 
restricted.

Staff are running Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.

So far googling's found me this

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a no-charge enterprise search software 
solution that enables rapid deployment of intranet and file system search for 
both employees and customers.

http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.net/productinfo.php

However this product only officially supports RH and SUSE.

Any other good suggestions

-- 
Harondel J. Sibble 
Sibble Computer Consulting
Creating Solutions for the small and medium business computer user.
help at pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com
(604) 739-3709 (voice)

We built a test like this with CentOS, Samba, Fuse, Lucene and Apache that
worked very much like Google Desktop search.  It worked really well but at the
end of the day we are not a software company and didn't pursue this further.

Let me know if you want me to search for our old notes on this test.

| Larry Velez | www.sinu.com |

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]
On Behalf Of Harondel J. Sibble
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 12:04 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] web based index of samba share contents

Anyone know of a good opensource product to give google desktop like search 
functionality via web browser of a set of samba shares running on a Debian 
5.x server. It needs to be able to fully index word, excel, openoffice and 
text files at a minimum.  It should also have some form of ACL control so 
that only certain users can actually search the index for specific smb 
shares.

In this particular instance, there is a general office share which everyone 
should be able to use and a partners/owners/managers share which should be 
restricted.

Staff are running Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.

So far googling's found me this

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a no-charge enterprise search software 
solution that enables rapid deployment of intranet and file system search for 
both employees and customers.

http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.net/productinfo.php

However this product only officially supports RH and SUSE.

Any other good suggestions

-- 
Harondel J. Sibble 
Sibble Computer Consulting
Creating Solutions for the small and medium business computer user.
help at pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com
(604) 739-3709 (voice)

-- 
To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 09:04:26AM -0800, Harondel J. Sibble
wrote:
> Anyone know of a good opensource product to give google desktop like search
> functionality via web browser of a set of samba shares running on a Debian 
> 5.x server. It needs to be able to fully index word, excel, openoffice and 
> text files at a minimum.  It should also have some form of ACL control so 
> that only certain users can actually search the index for specific smb 
> shares.
> 
> In this particular instance, there is a general office share which everyone
> should be able to use and a partners/owners/managers share which should be 
> restricted.
> 
> Staff are running Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.
> 
> So far googling's found me this
> 
> IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a no-charge enterprise search software 
> solution that enables rapid deployment of intranet and file system search
for
> both employees and customers.
> 
> http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.net/productinfo.php
> 
> However this product only officially supports RH and SUSE.
> 
> Any other good suggestions
It's a funny 'ole world :-). After leaving Whistle I trotted
up and down Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley with an ex-Whistle
Exec (for credibility) trying to pitch such a device to any
of the Venture Capitalists. I thought it would have made a
great start-up company idea !

None of them wanted anything to do with it (sigh :-). At least
you and I prove that great minds think alike :-).

Jeremy.