Greetings, MOSS 2007 enthusiasts! Just wanted to share a
quick tip about configuring search in the Shared Service
Provider...
Here was the situation:
When setting up a client's MOSS 2007 environment, the server name
was used for the main site collection's URL (server: SRV-MOSS, URL:
http://SRV-MOSS). As you can see, this isn't the best URL for daily
use, so the client requested a default alternate access mapping of
http://portal. After making the change the the default access
mapping, something happened - site-wide search continued to work,
but searching "This Site" and "This List" no longer worked.
Here was the solution:
It turns out that when I'd configured the SSP's search content
source, I'd used the http://SRV-MOSS URL for the URL to crawl. DO
NOT DO THIS. For all searching to work properly, be certain that
the URL you're crawling is identical to the default URL in your
alternate access mappings.
Here were a couple helpful links that led me to my
solution:
Microsoft TechNet Article
SharepointSearch.com
Hope this saves you some time!