Search Permissions and Indexed File Shares

One very attractive feature of SharePoint Server 2010 (and MOSS 2007) its Search engine’s ability to index content sources outside of SharePoint, such as network file shares and other Web sites. When SharePoint indexes a file share, it also reads the NTFS permissions configured on the file share to determine which SharePoint users are able to see and access content through a search. So if User 1 does not have access to Folder A in that indexed file share, nothing in Folder A will be shown to User 1 in a search results page. However, keep in mind that the security on those items in Folder A are still managed in the Windows file share, not within SharePoint.

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