Q: Unable to search network drives with Lion...

Having the same symptoms as WW1 Ace, I can't resolve this issue.  Didn't get a chance to speak to Apple support but will do so today and post outcomes.

OK spent over an hour on the phone with tech support and they were unable to resolve with regular troubleshooting eg. rebuild spotlight index, add/remove shares from privacy options etc.

We identified that the issue is also affecting an NTFS USB hard drive connected directly to the Mac as well as the network shares.

A FAT32 drive connected was immediately indexed by Spotlight.

They are escalating the issue to an Engineer after having received a snapshot of my system state.

Mac os x never got a good support for NTFS maybe they will finally get it right.

Only If there is a will :-)

Great, nice one Tom. Hopefully we'll see a fix shortly.

It would seem to be a network protocol issue.

I am rather annoyed with Apple as they seem to have changed the protocol without making this clear.

My ReadyNAS duo is now little more than a brick with a fan.

Thanks Apple.

I am also having the same issue with my NAS. At first I wasn't even able to access it but that is a whole different story.

Are you able to even access that network drive? .. If not, I found a fix.

What is your fix. We are having the same problem. Not being able to search a SMB drive. We can access it just fine, but no search function.

I think you misread my reply... I was referring to a fix for accessing the network drive, not searching it.

Can you blame the guy? The problem is exactly what you don't have any fix for. Just like the discussion topic...

Very Interested in hearing any followup info from you tomfromnewtown. It's really hamstringing our graphics department not being able to easily search over 10,000 files without going to the server terminal.

I tried installing tools such as Thursby's Dave or ExtremeZ IPs to see if the ability to search an smb drive would return. I also tried mounting using CIFS or DFS url structures. In my case, searching did not come back.

My theory on this is that "Find" no longer finds raw filenames, it only searches metadata (which could contain the filename). Unfortunately, we cannot index any of our smb drives, so this metadata will never exist, and therefore will have no results when searching.

Using ReadyNAS duo (netgear) and their latest beta.

Through Foxtrot Pro had to start again - previous folder assignments just resulted in the indexer sitting tere and oing not very much. Reassigned the NAS folder (through AFP) and rebuilt the index.

The very latest version of Foxtrot Pro is, as I type, currently indexing the contents of the NAS folder.

So...something of a result.

Just to update...

Able to fully search (including content of files) using:

Latest version of Foxtrot Pro

Beta software for my ReadyNAS duo (sparc based)

Lion OS X

Through AFP

So...all is well.

Only issue now is to get Timecapsule to work which has so far defeated me (plus the print server on the ReadyNAS nolonger works :-(...ah well)

Still no word from Apple on this. I will follow up again today.