When you set up access privileges on folders that are either AppleSearch information sources or subfolders of information source folders, AppleSearch guarantees that the access privileges would be honored. That is, if someone can not see a folder by mounting a volume on AppleShare, AppleSearch would neither show that folder as an information source, nor return any files contained in that folder as hits.
If you log in as Guest, sometimes this guarantee is violated. Guest users can occasionally see all the things superusers can see. At other times, Guest access works correctly.
Workaround
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There are a couple of work-arounds:
* Disallow guest access to your AppleSearch Server.
* Set up accounts for all your users.
* Always log-in as an ordinary user immediately after launching the server,
but never login as superuser.
* Set up a pseudo-guest account that users can use.
Note: This condition is pertinent only on the servers where administrators really use access privilege protections among information sources. If all your information is available to all your users, this condition does not arise.
This issuewill be fixed in AppleSearch 1.4.