iMac can't search servers after upgrading to High Sierra

After upgrading to High Sierra, Spotlight seems to have stopped searching our two servers. I've never experienced this in the earlier Mac OS versions.

Both servers are running on Snow Leopard. Could it be that High Sierra has dropped support for Snow Leopard servers?

Any suggested work around is highly appreciated. Thank you.



Mac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)

3.2 GHz Intel Core i5

Posted on Oct 16, 2017 10:41 AM

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Oct 16, 2017 5:07 PM in response to paksiw

These are steps prior to High Sierra.


Unmount the desired network drive

Turn off file sharing - ie untick the file sharing box

Reboot Mac

Open File Sharing and click Options. Tick AFP** and SMB then exit Options. File Sharing will now be turned on, if it hasn't then click it on and check Options to see that the ticks in AFP and SMB have both stuck.

Open Finder. Use Command+K or via Menu "Go" then "Connect to Server" (Try Browse to find servers)


**Apple deprecated AFP, so volumes formatted as APFS cannot offer share points over the network with that protocol. You have to use SMB or NFS.

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