Unable to search network drives with Lion...

On Mountain Lion, this only works when I use AFP. mdutil will not turn on indexing on SMB-mounted volumes (at least in my setup with one Synology DS121j).

Thanks for the hint!

You own a multi thousand dollar retina macbook pro and mess around with Lion because you don't want to give Apple $16 for an OS that would probably solve your problem? That's hilariuos.

just for the record: ML did solve my problems, as I wrote earlier:

open terminal, type mdutil /Volumes/Shared -i on

sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/<name>

does not work for me. The command succeeds, I get a message that indexing is enabled, but there is no spotlight indexing icon as reported...

I am running SL.

I use Easy Find now, I have found this kludge to be hit amd miss. I get the same results as eretria, although after a while mine does find files on the nas.

I just downloaded the 10.8.1 update and I can't believe my eyes--I actually can Finder search all my drives--external, and two smb-networked computers (both root and subdirectories).

Wow, can a few others verify? Might almost be enough to convince me to upgrade to ML (and eventually upgrade a few machines that have been sunset at Lion).

I see no real change. I can search a mounted share but not the nas as a whole, and if I knew my file was on a perticular share I would not need to search for it..

More work needed.

I tried exactly that ... and my settings do match yours ... no dice.

Immediately shows "0 items" and does not even attempt a search (unlike EasyFind and ForkLift).

Do you mean your hitting cmd/F and then entering your data in the search tab at the top of the finder window ?

Do you mean your hitting cmd/F

That's an option yes…

Its an option, but is it what andybc is doing ?

Is there any other way to search just using the finder ?

No that's about the only way I use to search network drives.

To search your built in drive, the easiest is to just to go the spotlight icon and type.

Look in too AppStore is there Apple add new product OS X Server, heh next standard system function go to another comercial OS extention.

well, I'm on ML now and many of the issues still persist, there is as you will already know by now a new update for ML and I don't think it addresses the issues.