Google Search Appliance Connectors Deploying the Connector for File Systems - Manual (Page 5)

9. The connector sends the URLs to the search appliance. For a folder, the connector
sends an HTML listing of the contents of the folder to the search appliance.
10. The search appliance continues to crawls the repository.
After the initial process completes, the connector periodically sends files or folders that
have been modified, added, or deleted to the search appliance, according to the value set
in the connector configuration. The default interval value is 15 minutes. The modification
can be renamed content, content that has its attributes changed or had its security
permissions (ACLs) changed.
Supported file system protocols
The Connector for File Systems supports the following file system protocols:
● Server Message Block (SMB) 1
● SMB 2
● Common Internet File System (CIFS)
● Samba
● Distributed File System (DFS)
Network File System (NFS) is not supported.
Distributed File System support
For DFS, the Connector for File Systems only supports a DFS link as the root configuration
point. DFS links are fully supported by the connector. DFS namespaces are not supported.
A Windows share can be a mapped drive, but the connector is not able to read DFS ACLs if
a drive maps to a DFS UNC path.
Supported operating systems
The Connector for File Systems must be installed on Windows. The Connector for File
Systems 4.0 is compatible with the following Windows operating systems:
● Windows Server 2003
● Windows Server 2008 R2
● Windows Server 2012
Google also supports crawling file shares on these Windows versions, but you might also
crawl content on any Windows operating system later than Windows XP.
The Connector for File Systems does not run on Linux.