Unable to search network drives with Lion...

no. I just know it works....

Hello all,

It looks like this issue has been going on for quite some time (since the official release of Lion, I would presume?) I've recently deployed a brand new iMac with OS X 10.7.2 to one of my users, and unfortunately she is having the same issue as what everyone else in this thread.

It's funny this feature is not functional in the latest OS, yet works perfectly on her old machine which is running Tiger. Yes, Tiger.

I still believe the idea is for users to obtain a mac-based server. The network search would probably work then...

How many users on your lan and what kind of use do you have on it?

Roumers has it that 10.7.3 has a fix for this problem. "Address compatibility issues with Windows file sharing".

I beleve 10.7.3 Beta has ben released
🙂

Wow. Finally! Let's keep crossing fingers. Any idea when 10.7.3 will be out?

A free program called iFileX will search network drives.

You can download it here: http://www.osxbytes.com/page3/index.html

Just tried it on 10.7.3...still a no go.

Yes, no search possible on SMB drives and even on 3rd party AFP connected drives (QNAP).

This is really disappointing.

-- Harald

My question to a programmer: it's possible to run spotlight in debug mode?

I really want to know why it doesn't work at this time!

Thanks tbhatch for the link, i use this programm and it works fine.

Yes everyone keeps talking about the SMB and "licensing" of gpl3 but apple broke this for AFP too! Ala QNAP etc... Completly unacceptable. And the lack of response even more so.

I've tried the EasyFind app. It seems to be a nice fix. I hope that only temporary though. Finder should do these things without external help....

EasyFind is too slow on large folders. It is a workaround but not a satisfying one ...

-- Harald

Yes, you are right. Moreover, something like searching for files should be a standard functionality especially of "The World's most advanced desktop system" 🙂