Re: [Micronet] OS X 10.4 Doesn't Index Network Drives(?)!

In the message "[Micronet] OS X 10.4 Doesn't Index Network
Drives(?)!", dated 2005-04-29, Jon Forrest wrote:

>I went to last week's presentation on Mac OS X 10.4
>and I was very very impressed. I can see how the Spotlight
>will help a lot.
>
>But, if I heard correctly (or read correctly, I'm not sure
>where I learned this), Spotlight doesn't index network drives.
>... this sounds like a big limitation in environments where
>users store their files on a file server rather than on
>a local disk.

   I'm sure we'll learn more about this over time, but here's what
some early adopters are saying in Apple discussions:

"Spotlight search across networked volumes?"
<http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@1021.ZP6na5mbQOr.4@.68ad9bdf>

According to posters in this discussion, Spotlight may allow
searching of unindexed networked volumes, and may be able to reference
Spotlight index databases stored on remote server volumes, such as
volumes mounted from a Tiger Server.

"Spotlight and SMB: Any Definitive Answers?"
<http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@1021.ZP6na5mbQOr.1@.68addded>

According to a poster in this discussion, there is a Spotlight CLI command
that may be able to manually - and slowly - generate a Spotlight index on
a remote volume. (If the remote volume isn't offered by a Mac running
Tiger, presumably this would be the only way to keep the index up to date.)

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Mon May 2 10:54:46 2005