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General Settings

The General Settings window contains several fundamental Network Search Engine settings.

The Threads control is where you specify the number of parallel crawling threads used by the indexer. This number depends on the speed of your server and network. A typical setting would be in the range from five to 50. The next important option group is the Logon As group. A valid, standard user or above, logon is required by Windows so that system services will have the correct permissions to access the network. You can create a new Windows user specifically to use with Network Search Engine or you can enter your existing login and password into these fields. Your password will be stored securely. If you do not know what a domain is or if your network does not use domains, then leave the Domain field blank. As soon as you enter a valid user name and password, the service will perform a logon and, if successful, display the current logged on user as shown below: