Re: Search Problems

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The people in the SPS newsgroups know best about "SPS search working; WSS
search not" in SPS installations.

The SPS newsgroup is microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver

Post there and you are likely to get an answer quicker than here as this is
a problem that people with standalone WSS (this newsgroup) do not face.

Engelbert


<mike_palko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1158781215.422087.101540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Before I get into my problem, here is how sharepoint environment is
setup:

We are only using one portal
Front End (on one box) - SPS 2003 with Service Pack 2
Back End (on another box) - SQL Server 2005. The only databases on
this box are for our portal.

We are having problems with searchs. It seems like the portal search
works ok, but when you do a search from a WSS site you get nothing
back. Well, I looked in our "_SITE" database and noticed that there is
no catalog in the "Full Text Catalogs" folder. I swore I remember a
catalog there before. Well after doing some research I heard all you
have to do is the following:

Go to SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration
Click on "Windows SharePoint Services"
In the "Component Configuration" section, click on "Configure full-text
search"
Uncheck the "Enable full-text search and index component" and click OK
Click on "Configure full-text search" again
Check the "Enable full-text search and index component" and click OK

This process will create the catalog. Well I have and it still doesn't
work. Can't search from a WSS site and no catalog. This is driving me
nuts. Does anyone have any thoughts or a resolution? Am I doing
something wrong? Please help!

Mike



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