How to define the scopes for network drives in windows indexing service?

Question

I'm stuck on a problem here with Indexing Service I send query's against the Indexing Service from an ASP.NET Application which works fine as long as I search on a whole Catalog.

SELECT ... FROM  testCat..Scope('Deep traversal of "\"')

But if I try to search in a specific folder I get no results at all.

SELECT ... FROM  testCat..Scope('Deep traversal of "\abc"')

Or

SELECT ... FROM  testCat..Scope('Deep traversal of "U:\MyIndexFolder\abc"')

The folder MyIndexfolder is the root of the Catalog and the sub directory "abc" exits. Does anyone has an idea what could be the cause of my problem?

P.S. I know that Indexing Service is deprecated but I have to work with it anyway so I hope there is someone out there who can help since it is hard to find useful information on the topic

Answer 1

The source of my problem was that my indexed folder is stored on a network drive. And it seems that in this case it is not possible to use relative paths for the scope. You have to use the full network-path.

//servername/path

I hope this can help anyone else!