I'm new to FP and Sharepoint.  I designed a site using FP2000 on a
Windows 2003 box and my search form worked perfectly when searching for
documentation stored in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\myweb. (When I view source
code of search.htm, useindexserver is set to 0, but the search works

On a 2003 Server in our Web directories there is a folder of .doc files that
are set to be indexed and some get indexed but some do not! There appears to
be nothing special between those that get cataloged and those that don't. If
I query the catalog or run an asp search (as ...

I am trying to use the IFilters to  extract the text out of the document
for our Search Application.
For the most Part it seems to work fine but there are a few documents which
give me an error "Catastrophic failure"

I have a dedicated Index Server with approx 30 catalogs.  When I try to
create another the Property Set does not fully populate.  But if I
create a catalog pointing to another server the Property Set populates
fully.  So I suspect that there is some type of communcation problem

Is there any good write-up on using Windows XP Search Companion to searching a remote index?
http://www.xpsearch.info/xps2.htm has some nice TIPS, but not on searching remote indices.
In particular, I'm interested in
   (1) what is the "correct" way to specify searching a remote ...

Good day
I am having some trouble setting up indexing service on my machine
(running XP). I have written a website application using asp.net/c#.
This is running 100%, but I am now trying to add "search" functionality

Can Indexing Services use Google Desktop Search plug-ins?  I know that there
is an Ifilter plugin for GDS to use IFilters.
Thanks in advance,

We're running MS Server 03, IIS6, and use the built-in Indexing Service
to provide our search utility. Is there a way to capture the search
terms that users type into the search box?

I'm sure I'm doing something horribly, obviously wrong (I hope so), so
please feel free to point it out!
I've set up Index Server on Win2003 under IIS 6. I've created two
catalogs. Each has a single directory, and that physical directory

I need to search for a string - like 'apples' - and limit (or include) only
file types I specify. Such as
apples #filename *.pdf #filename *.doc
Is this kind of command available - ie, return multiple file types? What is

We have around 250 websites on our server and 33 of them are being
indexed using Index Server for the website search functionality.  We
have a seperate server that does the indexing to take some of the load
off the hosting server.  33 catalogs seems to be the limit.  Does

Is there an easier way to exclude the results of all subdirectories, other
than manually using the IS Console to manually "add" folders and tell it
"no" on each and every subdirectory?
In other words, I want to return search results from the root folder only,

Tried to create a new catalog on a server with IS running, and specified the
location of another one of our websites located on a different server, i.e.,
http://www.otherserver.com/  and got an error "invalid location"...  I'm
assuming IS can only index content on the local drive ...

I am facing a problem with regular expressions when used with custom
properties.I am using IXSSO to query index server.
I defined the following column:
query.DefineColumn("EmpName(DBTYPE_WSTR|DBTYPE_BYREF)=

I've created my first web through FP2000.  I have Index Server running.
I have a number of Word documents contained in
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\myweb\docs.
I have a .htm page containing hyperlinks to these documents