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[SQLScholar]

Hey all,

I am getting an odd problem. On a WSS3 server i have 4 sites. 1 of them can search fine, the other 3 always have no results.

I have looked in the error log for the search and i am getting "Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content."

I have read through quite a few resolves on the net but they all seem to be pointing at all sites not being able to search.

Any ideas?

Dan

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind - Dr. Seuss

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes - EW Dijkstra
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[niceguymattx]

It sounds like the account your search service runs under doesnt have the correct permissions to crawl all of your site collections.

 

[SQLScholar]

It seems to be set up to use the local system account.

I cant see any access given to the site that works for local system, so i am not sure how to give local system access to the sites.

Dan

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind - Dr. Seuss

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes - EW Dijkstra
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[niceguymattx]

I probably didn't explain that very well.

Your default content access account (set in your ssp admin page under search settings) will require permissions to read the site collections that you're struggling to get results for.

As a first point check, set the default content access to your site admin account just to see if that helps. This should help us tell if its a permissions problem. What I would also do is set-up a different content source for each site collection, and try to crawl each one individually to ensure "Items in index:" changes.

Its just for diagnosis, but I would guess the problem lies in your default content access accounts permissions.

 

[SQLScholar]

Hi,

I am not sure i am explaining myself correctly. I have two problems doing what your saying:

1) In my version of WSS (3) the search service seems to be here:

Central Administration > Operations > Services on Server > Windows SharePoint Services Search Service Settings

The service is configured as local service. How would i give this permissions for each site?

2) If the above is the problem how does it seem to work fine on the other sites - when i cant see that account cofigured anywhere?

Many thanks for your help

Dan

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind - Dr. Seuss

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes - EW Dijkstra
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[niceguymattx]

Sorry, I was assuming you were using MOSS but it sounds like you're actually running WSS 3.0. Most of my experience is with a full MOSS install.

1. Go to Central Administration > Application Management page
2. Click on Policy for web application
-- Then for each site (top right corner)
3. Click on Add Users
4. Select the zone that you extended the web application
5. Click Next
6. Enter the crawl account username to Users field (NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE?)
7. Check Full Read for the permission
8. Click Finish

If this doesnt help do all of your sites have the same authentication mode?

 

[SQLScholar]

Thanks for that.

Unfortunately it seem each one has Local service as having full read already.

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind - Dr. Seuss

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes - EW Dijkstra
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[niceguymattx]

Oh! Running out of ideas now!!

Just to be 100% sure - the identity running the search service is Local Service? I just read back through and earlier you mentioned it was Local System? If it is local system then the previous procedure should have been looking for Local System.

Other than that I'm stumped?