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title: "Search File Servers & Network Drives"
url: https://lookeen.com/use-cases/file-server-search
lang: en
description: "Find files on your PC, file servers and network drives by content – in almost 100 formats, with filters for path, type and date and permission-aware results."
published: 2026-10-12T10:00:00+00:00
modified: 2026-10-12T10:00:00+00:00
---

# Search File Servers & Network Drives

The file is called "final\_v3\_new.docx" and it's somewhere on the S: drive. Lookeen finds documents not just by name but by their content – on your own PC, on network drives and centrally on file servers.

[Try it free](https://lookeen.com/get-started) [Network search details](https://lookeen.com/solutions/enterprise-search/search-networks)

## How Lookeen helps

Lookeen searches drives by content and shows only what you are allowed to see.

### Almost 100 formats by content

Office and LibreOffice, PDF, text, images, CAD, diagrams, archives and source code. You decide which types are indexed by content – file names are always searchable.

### Filters instead of folder clicking

Narrow results by path, drive, file type, size and modification date – or set targeted filters on name, path and text.

### Preview with highlighting

Documents open in the preview with search terms highlighted, with paging and zoom – no need to launch the original application.

### Only permitted folders

Lookeen Server takes over file permissions at index time. Department folders stay invisible to others – in search, too.

## Easy on your network

The index is built in the background without slowing file servers or connections down during the working day.

-   **Control indexing:** Adjust the speed, set a cooldown after each run, or pause indexing on battery.
-   **Detect slow networks:** Indexing pauses automatically on a slow connection.
-   **One shared index:** With Lookeen Server, a central service indexes the file servers once for everyone instead of on every workstation.

Learn more: [Scanned documents (OCR)](https://lookeen.com/use-cases/ocr-scanned-documents) · [On-premises search](https://lookeen.com/use-cases/on-premises-search) · [File search](https://lookeen.com/solutions/desktop-search/file-search)

[All use cases →](https://lookeen.com/use-cases)