1. A computer-implementable method comprising: accessing, via a searching system, a remote file system application program interface (API), the remote file system API enabling passing of a file system path and search criteria regular expression values and receiving of search results; performing a search on a mapped remote drive using the remote file system API, the mapped remote drive receiving the file system path and search criteria via the remote file system API; and returning the search results to the searching system via the remote file system API.