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koniu / recoll-webui

web interface for recoll desktop search
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Not sure where esle to post this...so, can someone explain this in some more depth, I am not sure how to work around this #52

Closed afm-mike closed 7 years ago

afm-mike commented 7 years ago

Can't open files when Recoll WebUI is running on a server

By default links to files in the result list correspond to the file's physical location on the server. If you have access to the file tree via a local mountpoint or eg. ftp/http you can provide replacement URLs in the WebUI settings. If in doubt, ask your network administrator.

Recoll WebUI is running on server, on debian. No local mount points exist on the windows machines.

ghost commented 7 years ago

Answered same question asked through email: use download link.

koniu commented 7 years ago

If you want to open instead of download you need to mount the file tree locally on the client machine and point the relevant 'Locations' in 'Settings' to that local mount point.

To open files on windows machines you should probably look into setting up a Samba daemon on the server and "mount" the share on the Windows clients (net use z: //server/my_docs iirc). Then in the browser on the Windows client go to Settings in recoll-webui and adjust folder Locations to correspond to the newly available Z:... tree.