Widows file server crawling and indexing

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Hi I m new to Elastic search.

I looking into this if feasible as on premises

  • Install Elastic on a linux server (on premises)
  • Index our files located on windows server (on premises - same LAN)
  • search from a basic page page google style - integrate the same to our internal web based houde developped application.
  • be able to retrive the files images etc from the serch results
  • if possible have secrurity features to make sure user can only see search results of the files they are allowed to reach from windows server - ie if user no access to //DATA/SECRET/ folder seach results should not display the content of the //DATA/SECRET/ folder

please if an expert can confirm if i m dreaming or not. then i ll dive in to find out how to make this happen

Many thanks in advance

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Welcome!

Have a look at Elastic network drive connector reference | Enterprise Search documentation [8.15] | Elastic.

Alternatively you can use FSCrawler. There's a tutorial to help you getting started.

But it does not take care (yet) of ACLs.