WSS3 cannot be crawled

I'm getting this error on the server of WSS 3.0

The start address <sts3://ebs-sharepoint/contentdbid={d901caff-7863-40aa-8460-c3ef9132cb89}> cannot be crawled.

Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server', Catalog 'Search'

Details:
Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (0x80041205)

The WSS 3.0 is configured to use Kerberos and both the WSS Search and Timer service is running under a domain account.

Any help. Thanks.

Jason



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WSS3 cannot be crawled

  • murphy.m.j

    Im having this problem as well. If anyone finds a fix, please let me know if within a few days of this posting. And Microsoft, please figure out what is going on here!
  • msaeedf

    both Method 1 and 2 doesn't work for me.

    I haven't specify the host header in IIS and I access the website thr FQDN

    and the error log show http://servername ... rather than http://servername.domain.com


  • Neotech

    Hi

    I'm having same problem.

    Event Type: Warning
    Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search
    Event Category: Gatherer
    Event ID: 2436
    Date: 2/12/2007
    Time: 1:50:00 PM
    User: N/A
    Computer: <computer>
    Description:
    The start address <sts3://server.domain.dk/contentdbid={7a7f6b78-5fe1-4c0e-a5f2-956a00cc7f04}> cannot be crawled.

    Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server', Catalog 'Search'

    Details:
    Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (0x80041205)

    For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

    The default content access account is DBO on the DB and running NTLM auth


  • nmharleyrider

    Method 1 worked for me also!
  • KyleNHS

    Check for Loopback Checking as per KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861

    Worked for me. If it works for you, please mark this thread as answered. Thanks.


  • Keith Fredericks

    Finally i got it working.

    The problem is that I cannot broswe to http://servername in the IE of my WSS3 server.
    After correct the proxy setting in IE of the server (bypass proxy), I can crawled the content in http://servername now.

    However the event log keep showing that it cannot crawled the Central Administration page.

    The start address <sts3://ebs-sharepoint:13547/contentdbid={7fa830af-870c-4f83-a04f-b5bf31b3ea58}> cannot be crawled.

    It is normal
    I can broswe to http://ebs-sharepoing:13547 from the IE of WSS3 server.


  • bigbob

    Hi

    I fixed the problem on my server

    The problem is that we use a FQDN and also running the search service on the frontend server
    Have a look on this KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 - Method 1: Disable the loopback check

    It worked for me :)

  • Francesco De Vittori

    All,

    Details:
    Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (0x80041205)

    For resolving this error, please make sure that your Content Access Account has enought privileges on the data-sources. If you want to index custom data-sources like documentum, intranet sites, databases, fileshares , internet etc make sure that your content access account has enought privileges on the data-source.

    If you just want to index the Sharepoint (WSS) sites only, make sure that Shared Services (Timer, Search etc)

    are running properly with privileged User Accounts



  • ugpj

    I resolved a similar type message.

    WSS Central Console --> Operations --> Alternate Address Mapping

    I reset the default Sharepoint - 80 site back to the servername.

    Once this was configured, the crawling warnings went away.

    I tried changing these values so the links in outgoing mail (for alerts, workflow etc) would display the external (public) IP address.



  • Attila Fogel

    I had the same crawl error messages in Event Viewer. I have also changed the registry settings according to 896861. It did not work. I think the reason my index crawl failed is because WSS search service is using HTTP urls for indexing whereas all my sites are HTTPS enabled. HTTP urls will not return any results. My question is how am I going to modify WSS indexing engine and get it to scan HTTPS urls instead of HTTP without a lot of work. I wonder if the scan path information is stored in the WSS Search database.


  • Terry Smith

    I am getting exactly the same problem as well.
  • robinjam

    We are having the same problem in 3 of our WSS3 server. Is someone in MS working on it
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