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Unable to search network drives with Lion...

After installing Lion, I have found I am unable to search network drives (Windows network) like I used with Snow Leopard. Any suggestions?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 8:01 AM

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Mar 2, 2013 10:36 PM in response to Vance Jackson

In addition to network drives, I'm finding the same issue with external drives as well. I'm highly dissappointed with Apple on this. After much research and searching through dozens of forums, someone mentioned the EasyFind app. This is the best option for now. I'm a fan of Apple but this inconvenience and the hours I spent for a solution almost made me want to go back to Microsoft Windows. I have a 4TB external drive and without a functional search, it's a nightmare to find anything.

Mar 4, 2013 2:32 AM in response to b_rai

Agreed, be aware that despite what people say about easyfind, its not consistent either. I have had it consistently miss certain files many times. For exampe if I have a series of number video files, I will find that easy find cant find file 4 for example, despite it being there and matching the pattern of all the other files.


I have given up on searching external or network drives with apple. Its fruitless, pointless and the most profounding limiting thing they could do their product.

Apr 22, 2013 4:40 PM in response to Vance Jackson

I have tried a number of the tips suggested in this thread to no avail. I have a intel xServe running Lion Server. The drive in Bay 1 is the OS drive. Bay 2 and 3 are a mirror RAID that I use as my file server data drive. I have set the data drive up as a share point. I have several mac's in my office set up as client, running several different versions of OSX (10.5 through 10.8) based on the age of the machines. I have no problem connecting to the sharepoint, and can access all files. However, I can not search the sharepoint from Spotlight or Finder. If I screenshare into the server and search directly, I get the correct results. Searching from cleint gets ZERO results.


My quesiton is this -- Will upgrading to ML Server solve this problem? To put the question another way, is this a Lion issue, or does it also affect ML?


Thanks

May 8, 2013 1:25 PM in response to kcncda

This is a Lion OS issue because we have many Lion computers in our shop and they all have the same problem. We are running Xinet FullPress servers and also Mac OSX servers and both have same issues. When I perform the same search on the same server on a mac running Mountain Lion, I was able to perform the search. Not really an answer but just what I found. Did not read all of the threads to see if any of the threads had the same results.

Jun 14, 2013 4:41 PM in response to quang2550

Hi all,


I have seen several issues related to accessing smb drives across a network. Try remounting your disks in Mac OSX (any version) using cifs://servername. Login as guest and use as normal. Typically the problem I have seen is because of incompatible protocols from Apple and other vendors. CIFS forces your device to use version 1 of the smb protocol which should be supported by all vendors who advertise disks as windows shares or SMB.

Jul 12, 2013 10:49 AM in response to Hans Luijten

Hans Luijten wrote:


Same here: CIFS works ...

Too bad my Mac keeps seeing my NAS as a SMB server and mounts shares as such.

Any tricks to make it always mount as CIFS?

(Automount Maker helps, but it's not as "auto" as I'd like it to be)


Here are a few tips on how to get the disks properly mounted every time.


  1. Remove any links that you might have added to your sidebar or any aliases that you may have created for your smb mounted drives.
  2. Mount the drive and add as a favorite using Finder Menu > Go > Connect to ServerUser uploaded file
  3. Access your drive and enter them once to make sure you've loaded all of the shares User uploaded file
  4. Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Users & Groups User uploaded file
  5. In Users & Groups: Select the Current User in the left-hand side and then click the "Login Items" button on the right side. You can drag and drop your mounted shares onto the white space and the shares will be auto mounted whenever you log into your system. User uploaded file
  6. If desired one can now add shortcuts to these mounted CIFS shares to the sidebar of Finder for easy access.

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