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Intranet File Sharing - Frequently Asked Questions

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What is Intranet File Sharing for?

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How Intranet File Sharing works?

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What about the performances of Intranet File Sharing?

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What software requires Intranet File Sharing?

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Can I receive the technical support?

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1:

What is Intranet File Sharing for?

 

Intranet File Sharing is the right tool for through search of your files across your local network. Search for the necessary files on your neighbor computers in shared folders. You can find very quick and easy any files like multimedia files, Microsoft Office documents and others in your local network. Program allows you to organize more detailed scan using a great amount of parameters: files wildcard mask, file size, files containing any of all of specified words, searching only in active computers from your network and so on. With the big number of details you'll find every file you want in your network!

 

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How Intranet File Sharing works?

 

Intranet File Sharing is a client-server solution. Searching local network with Intranet File Sharing is simpler as possible: just access the Intranet File Sharing server from within your web browser. Intranet File Sharing is divided into two big parts: the indexing section which scans, index and store, at a given period of time, data about files founded in shares (including hidden shares) from your network, IP subnetworks or just specified servers and the information retrieval part which process queries from clients, extract information and send the response back to the client.

 

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What about the performances of Intranet File Sharing?

 

The major advantage of Intranet File Sharing is searching speed. Featuring an client-server architecture, Intranet File Sharing was developed to achieve the maximum of performance. You can use it on networks with many hundreds of computers. The speed of the application helped by the power of Microsoft SQL Server allows you to quickly search hundreds of thousands of files and even millions. Intranet File Sharing was tested several months on networks with hundred of computers, answering hundreds of thousands of queries.

 

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What software requires Intranet File Sharing?

 

Intranet File Sharing requires Windows NT/2000/XP with Internet Information Server (IIS) and a database system based on the engine of Microsoft SQL Server: you can use either MSDE (Microsoft Data Engine) or Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000. For clients is required only a web browser to access Intranet File Sharing. We recommend you to use Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Microsoft SQL Server can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/
MSDE, the free database engine, can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/msde/

 

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Can I receive the technical support?

 

Only registered users receive technical support. But if you have a question or a suggestion please send it to us via e-mail.

 

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