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Search area
In large networks you may sometimes need to search only a part of the network. Use this option to specify a workgroup, network or domain to be searched. As per example below, according to the specified criteria, LAN Search Pro will search only the WORKGROUP workgroup. The Refresh button (re)builds the network tree.
Account management
If there are resources with restricted access (i.e. cannot be accessed without login and password) in your network, you can use this option to search such resources.
Click Add or Edit to add/edit a resource, login and/or password. Clicking the Delete button deletes a record. When you are adding a record, just enter the resource name, for example \\MYSERVER\MYDISK, the password (and a login name, if required). You can also import these details from a CSV file.
Batch processing
This function (main menu File - Create batch file) allows processing files in batch mode. It creates a .bat file according to your template to be used without LAN Search Pro. Here are the tags you can use in this template:
<FN> File name of each found file
<FD> Directory of each found file
<FC> Computer name where the file found
For example, template
copy <FN> c:\temp
creates a batch file that copies all found files to your c:\temp directory.
File content search
LAN Search Pro supports searching by file contents with ANSI, Unicode and Utf-8 encodings. Examples:
"bank account" charge finds the files contain the "bank account" text (without quotes) and/or the charge word.
game music fun finds the files contain all these words (AND) or at least one word (OR).
You should quote a sentence otherwise it will be recognized as keywords.
Command line switches
You can use the following switches as lansearch.exe /switch1 /switch2 ... switchN
| /mask: | Runs search with the specified mask. Example: /mask:"*.mp3;madonna;*.avi". |
| /text: | Runs search for files with the specified text. Example: /text:"Where do you want to go today". |
| /hide | Does not show the main window. |
| /close | Closes the program when the search is completed. |
| /exporthtm: | Exports the results to a HTML file when the search is completed. Use the %date% and %time% macros for the file name. Example: /exporthtm:"c:\share\log %date%.htm". |
| /exportcsv: | The same as above. Export to a CSV file. |
| /exportxml: | The same as above. Export to a XML file. |
| /exportdat: | The same as above. Export to a DAT file which can later be loaded into LAN Search Pro. |
For example, if you need to find all MP3 files and export their list to the file, use the following command line:
lansearch.exe /hide /close /mask:mp3 /exporthtm:netmp3.htm