Remote searching with Beagle
Searching your desktop for files can be a real pain without the right tools. Every desktop has one (ore more) search tools that can be used to search for that missing file. Linux
is not an exception. One of my favorite search tools for the Linux desktop is Beagle. You can read about the basics of Beagle in my article “Enable Beagle searching in GNOME“. Of course Beagle is not just for GNOME. Beagle can be used in just about any Linux desktop.
But one feature you might not know exists with Beagle is the ability to search across your internal LAN on other Beagle-enabled machines. This makes for an amazingly handy way to search for files across multiple machines without having to run around to every machine on your network. With one of the later releases of Beagle, you can enable remote searches. In this tutorial I will show you how to set this up and how to run a search across your network.
Searching your desktop for files can be a real pain without the right tools. Every desktop has one (ore more) search tools that can be used to search for that missing file. Linux
is not an exception. One of my favorite search tools for the Linux desktop is Beagle. You can read about the basics of Beagle in my article “Enable Beagle searching in GNOME“. Of course Beagle is not just for GNOME. Beagle can be used in just about any Linux desktop.
But one feature you might not know exists with Beagle is the ability to search across your internal LAN on other Beagle-enabled machines. This makes for an amazingly handy way to search for files across multiple machines without having to run around to every machine on your network. With one of the later releases of Beagle, you can enable remote searches. In this tutorial I will show you how to set this up and how to run a search across your network.
