Re: Shared local folders scenario / indexing "shared" stuff

[Fredrik Hedberg <fredrik hedberg avafan com>]

* NOTE * This solution has some serious security issues!


Add this to the scenario

The common data resides at a Linux server (192.168.0.1) called 
/shared/data. This is shared with NFS (or Samba) and mounted on the 
client computers as /data.


Solution

1. Compile (with ./configure --enable-network) and install Beagle on the 
server.
2. Create a user with /shared/data as its HOME.
3. Create a /shared/data/.beagle/shared.cfg file with the following 
contents:

   file:///shared/data;file:///data

(this translates the location of data residing on the server to the 
location accessable from the clients)

4. Start "beagled --enable-network --port 8500" on the server as the 
user created in step 2.
5. On each of the clients, create a ~/.beagle/peers.cfg file with the 
following contents:

   192.168.0.1:8500

6. Rock on!

Fredrik


Ralph Aichinger wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I just compiled beagle-0.0.4, and after it has indexed my mail
> overnight, I absolutely love it. It really would be helpful at
> my workplace, except for one problem. I'll describe the scenario:
>
> Sissy shares her office with 5 or 6 others, using a common folder
> to store their ongoing projects, letters, general stuff. This 
> folder is called /data. She wants to search /data with beagle,
> and that would even be more useful than searching her own homedir,
> because some of her colleagues have the bad habit of moving and
> renaming ("cleaning up") stuff. She never finds her documents 
> afterwards.
>
> Can this done with Beagle now? Is it planned? This scenario would
> stay clear of some of the problems of indexing the whole disk (e.g.
> you would not have to index various useless binary garbage in /usr
> or other places).
>
> TIA
> /ralph -- one minor nit: The BEST window never remembers its location
>          on the screen. Or is that a metacity problem?
>
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