Problems creating full text index with WSS 2.0 / Windows S..

I have a Windows Server 2003 box running WSS 2.0 and SQL Server 2000.

I've turned on full text indexing in WSS2.0 but I'm getting error
messages indicating that it can't find the appropriate iFilters for
the docs I'm storing (.doc and .pdf).

Error message reads :

One or more documents stored in image columns with extension 'doc' did
not get full-text indexed because loading the filter failed with
error '0x1'.

Note: These documents will not be passed to MSSearch for indexing,
and therefore this failure will not be reflected in the end of crawl
summary statistics.

I can see the FTDATA directory has been created as expected and there
are indexing files inside the dir. However, if I look at the DB, no FT
catalogs are shown.

I also have MS Office and Adobe Acrobat installed on the server. I've
had a look in the registry and on the face of it, it seems like the
iFilters are registered correcty. Certainly, I can see the entries,
and the dll (OffFilt.dll) is present Word.

Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what is going wrong here? I've
done this before and it 'just worked' when i enabled full text search
in WSS 2.0 (just a single check box), but something is causing a
problem in this case.

Many thanks
Craig

Were your word docs created with the fast save option?

Did you disable the signature check for the adobe filters and load os
resources?

"Craig Street" wrote in message

>I have a Windows Server 2003 box running WSS 2.0 and SQL Server 2000.
>
> I've turned on full text indexing in WSS2.0 but I'm getting error
> messages indicating that it can't find the appropriate iFilters for
> the docs I'm storing (.doc and .pdf).
>
> Error message reads :
>
> One or more documents stored in image columns with extension 'doc' did
> not get full-text indexed because loading the filter failed with
> error '0x1'.
>
> Note: These documents will not be passed to MSSearch for indexing,
> and therefore this failure will not be reflected in the end of crawl
> summary statistics.
>
> I can see the FTDATA directory has been created as expected and there
> are indexing files inside the dir. However, if I look at the DB, no FT
> catalogs are shown.
>
> I also have MS Office and Adobe Acrobat installed on the server. I've
> had a look in the registry and on the face of it, it seems like the
> iFilters are registered correcty. Certainly, I can see the entries,
> and the dll (OffFilt.dll) is present Word.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what is going wrong here? I've
> done this before and it 'just worked' when i enabled full text search
> in WSS 2.0 (just a single check box), but something is causing a
> problem in this case.
>
> Many thanks
> Craig
>