Cannot search for documents on discussion web.

I'm wondering if someone could provide me with a bit of assistance
with my IIS 5 server. I currently have a discussion thread that I
would like to provide the ability to search for documents. I believe
that I have everything setup correctly, but the searches do not yield
words that I know exist many times.

1. The indexing service is on.
2. I have created a catalog called "websearch" for lack of a better
name.
3. The catalog location under the general tab of the websearch
properties dialog box has the root of the virtual web page assigned.
(f:\webpages\www.xyz.com)
4. The tracking tab of the websearch properties dialog box has the
xyz.com web selected.
5. Default NNTP is selected (although I'm not finding that this makes
any difference.
6. If I select the "query the catalog" object under the websearch
object and perform a search for something common like "computer" it
responds with "there is no catalog."
7. Of course, trying the search from the webpage itself yields no
documents.


I would greatly appreciate anyone's insight.

Thanks

Joe

I may have solved this problem: I had two problems that I was able to
correct.

1. Location of the catalog: I moved the location of the catalog into
a temp directory on the server, and everything worked fine. I was a
bit perplexed as the original location had exactly the same
permissions.

2. The IDQ files don't really default to the location you want to
index. You need to manually change ciscope entry in the IDQ file
located in the _vti_script directory on your web.






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joe RemoveThis @uranidiot.net (Joe-XYZ-) wrote in message news:<cb24e978.0401240908.1d02242e RemoveThis @posting.google.com>...
 > I'm wondering if someone could provide me with a bit of assistance
 > with my IIS 5 server. I currently have a discussion thread that I
 > would like to provide the ability to search for documents. I believe
 > that I have everything setup correctly, but the searches do not yield
 > words that I know exist many times.
 >
 > 1. The indexing service is on.
 > 2. I have created a catalog called "websearch" for lack of a better
 > name.
 > 3. The catalog location under the general tab of the websearch
 > properties dialog box has the root of the virtual web page assigned.
 > (f:\webpages\www.xyz.com)
 > 4. The tracking tab of the websearch properties dialog box has the
 > xyz.com web selected.
 > 5. Default NNTP is selected (although I'm not finding that this makes
 > any difference.
 > 6. If I select the "query the catalog" object under the websearch
 > object and perform a search for something common like "computer" it
 > responds with "there is no catalog."
 > 7. Of course, trying the search from the webpage itself yields no
 > documents.
 >
 >
 > I would greatly appreciate anyone's insight.
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Joe<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->