Feature request, or LAN lunacy, take your pick.

[Janus]

Perhaps I should have called this Lanacy, but leaving jokes out of it.

I have a decent sized Lan, with workgroup/samba/cifs file sharing.
Five machines, each for different projects.
Right now I am Landexing them everything via their share names.
\\Machine1\Share1 with several shares each for each machine.

My main machine is lugging down on everything because of high file counts, several million.
Sources for versions of Explorer++, Celestia, Notepad++, Seamonkey, Servo, and the list goes on.

My desire is to have the ability to index the whole workgroup of shares, or by server name.

Such as where you have indexes\folders, add indexes\lan or indexes\Samba/Cifs/Workgroup which would contain the workgroup name(s) or \\Machine1 or however many systems there are.
It would then on a query, ask that machine for a match.
Not quite as you type, but say after five letters, or five seconds, or however works the best.

The basic ability is already there through etp, all I am wondering about is automating the hookup.
It would not interfere with searching just the one machines if specified.
However, it would reduce the load on individual machines by not having to keep the entire Landex in memory.
It would also mean less mess keeping the Landex up to date.
Since the machine with the file(s) would be giving the result(s), there would be no worries about stale caches.

Thank you for an already wonderful program.


Janus.

[void]

An index server is planned for Everything 1.5.

[Janus]

That is cool, thank you.

Janus.