Security for Content Outside the Workspace
SharePoint Portal Server is capable of crawling a variety of outside content sources and including them in its content index for use in search queries. Any security settings currently assigned to servers, file shares, and databases within your organization are recognized by SharePoint Portal Server. Note, however, that only file-level security settings are enforced, not share-level.
When crawling an outside content source within the same domain as the SharePoint Portal Server, the security scheme for the content source is mapped to Windows 2000 security, and is applied when a user searches the index for documents. Users only see documents if they have sufficient security permissions to access them.
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