Unable to search network drives with Lion...

Same Problem here! are they any 3rd party search tools?

Yes - Foxtrot or Foxtrot Pro.

I have always found this to be superior to spotlight anway. Better at carrying out structured and systematic searches.

Having the same issue

Followed up with Apple, no word from the Engineer yet so I suspect there is no quick fix yet. In any case I tried Foxtrot and am now able to successfully search my network shares.

It is almost inconceivable that Apple could miss such a major bug before rolling out Lion.

I'm still hopeful of a fix and will post once I have another update.

I'd honestly be happy if just searching on filename worked. I looked at Foxtrot and it seems like taking a nuclear bomb to kill a mosquito. Plus it's the principle of the thing - I already paid for Lion, I shouldn't have to pay more to get back the functionality I had in SL.

Feels like we are running Vista...

I am having the same exact problem and it seems that afp is fine but it's the SMB network drives that are the issue. Nothing has changed except for the upgrade to Lion. I didn't have any problem with searching SMB drives in Snow Leoapard

same problem here - we had 8 year old g4s - newly replaced with lion & now we are unable to search our network archives for artfiles - not good - i need a solution asap

Still no fix for this.

Seriously thinking of rolling back and asking for a refund. Search is, in my opinion, a major part of an OS. Apple + Quality in the same sentence is getting rare. This is rediculus, it should never have been released if it's simply not ready to use.

There's a free app in the App Store called 'EasyFind'. We're using that at the moment at it works fine, no indexing required and it's pretty quick. Working better than FoxTrot (here anyway).

It's not ideal but it's a temp-fix. Working through a, very large with many files, SMB share.

This seems to work very well. Thanks for the tip!

Evan

Yes - I'd forgotten about Devon technologies little app.

Does indeed work 🙂.

I've been using "Find Any File", also from the App Store, and it works better for me than EasyFinf

Hmmm... a finder that can't find anything. When it did, it left droppings everywhere (.dstore files.)

I give easyfind a thumbs up, and it's free.

Great tip--thanks. I made up a couple of search paradigms for much searched Win 7 directories and popped them onto my Dock. Saves a lot of time and unlike EasyFinf one can save searches.