Help needed: Read-only network database for PDFs

I am a relative beginner when it comes to using pdfs.
I am looking to set up a network with a database of pdf files on a central server which can be accessed (read-only) from the terminal pcs on the network.
Can anyone suggest a simple way to build a database and go about this?
Many thanks in advance.
Murray

It's just a normal web site but on your local network. You can use a
local search engine or a Google Appliance. Your web administrator, if
you have one, may have the expertise, or there may already be one.
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Edited by: 900471 on 2011. 12. 3 오전 5:32
Edited by: 900471 on 2011. 12. 3 오전 5:33
Edited by: 900471 on 2011. 12. 3 오전 5:33
Edited by: 900471 on 2011. 12. 3 오전 5:34

There are not enough details to be sure since you have not provided the mappings. From just the error, it looks like you are using the tableC.tableA_ID field as the foreign key in the ManyToOne relationship to A, but have marked it as insertable=false, writeable=false, meaning that it cannot be updated or used for inserts.
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msg ""
msg "removing unnecessary code"
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pkgname=pspsdk
pkgver=2209
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A collection of Open Source tools and libraries written for the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP)."
url="http://ps2dev.org/psp/Tools/Toolchain/"
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makedepends=()
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license="custom"
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Some explanation: I've used this one very often: --prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr/local/pspdev
Explanation: When I wanted to create only one PKGBUILD for the psptoolchain, some dependences were in $startdir/pkg. If you take --prefix=/usr/local/pspdev he won't get some depencies (mostly header files), which means I had to create single PKGBUILD's for every part of the psptoolchain (that would be 6 single parts).
Those --prefix-changes don't stop my psp environment from working! (tested it myself - I comiled almos all sample apps which were included in the pspsdk - and all compiled well)
I hope we can find a better solution than mine.
Thanks in advance
XazZ

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