Updated: 2008-03-03
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| Unless otherwise noted, the information in this article applies to both Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express. |
When Microsoft Search Server 2008 crawls the content specified by your content sources, the crawler uses the default content access account to authenticate to the server that hosts the content. Therefore, you must request that the owners of the content you are crawling grant full Read permissions to the account that you assigned as the default content access account, as well as any other accounts that are provided through a crawl rule.
Task requirements
Before you perform the procedures to accomplish this task, identify the authentication method that is used by the server that hosts the content that you are crawling. By default, Search Server 2008 uses NTLM authentication. Other supported authentication methods are Basic authentication, client certificates, forms-based authentication, and cookie authentication.
To change how the crawler authenticates to other servers, you can perform the following procedures: