Hi Everyone,
I recently inherited a new site as well as the following WSS 3 problem: The search function within the sharepoint site does not work and always returns the following message when searching:
No results matching your search were found.
1. Check your spelling. Are the words in your query spelled correctly?
2. Try using synonyms. Maybe what you're looking for uses slightly different words.
3. Make your search more general. Try more general terms in place of specific ones.
4. Try your search in a different scope. Different scopes can have different results.
I am greeted with the following in the application event log:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search
Event Category: Gatherer
Event ID: 2436
Date: 21/10/2008
Time: 10:42:01 a.m.
User: N/A
Computer: Servername
Description:
The start address <sts3://companyweb/content
dbid={c119
dc0d-9218-
40f2-9426-
c5b70280d3
7e}> cannot be crawled.
Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server',
Catalog 'Search'
Details:
Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account
has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (0x80041205)
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
WSS 3 is installed and running on a fully-fledged SQL 2005 box with the content database running on the default instance and everything else (including the search database) is running in a named instance of SQL express called \\.\pipe\mssql$microsoft##
ssee\sql\q
uery.
The search service is running under the Network Service Account and the network service account has db_owner permissions for all databases. Full text indexing is enabled.
So far I have changed WSS to run under a domain account instead of the network service account as I know it is not recommended but this made no difference (changed it back to NSA afterwards)
I am not too familiar with Sharepoint so any help would be greatly appreciated.
