Crawl file server to add files to search result

Question

I'm trying to add some directories from my file server to be included in the Search Center in SharePoint 2013. I have added a new content source to be crawled and stated it is a file server. I filled in the path \\fileserver\test After doing a full crawl i get this error :

Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has "Full Read" permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled.

I don't have any clue how to fix this error, i'm very new to SharePoint.

Thanks !

Kevin

Answer 1

Changed the default content access account to my user account. Everything works fine now !

Answer 2

The user account that operates the search crawling has to be given read permission to the file share you wish to crawl.