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10.4: Create Spotlight indexes for networked volumes
Authored by: schneb on May 04, '05 11:35:28AM

I hope they change this and keep a hidden index on each network volume. No use having an enterprize system if Spotlight only works locally.



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10.4: Create Spotlight indexes for networked volumes
Authored by: t0fukrunch on May 04, '05 12:06:06PM

The databases for network volumes with indexing enabled seem to be stored in /var/db/Spotlight-V100/.



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10.4: Create Spotlight indexes for networked volumes
Authored by: extra88 on May 04, '05 12:45:49PM

Storing the index on the network volume itself would require each user to have read/write access to the index which may not be desirable. Also, there would be no way to control what contents of the index are revealed to a given user. What if there are folders on the network volume you're not supposed to have access to? You could then learn about the contents of those folders.

To really do it right, the indexing services on the client and on the server need to talk to each other so the server can keep a complete index of what's on it but only tell the specific client user about the files they're allowed to see.



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10.4: Create Spotlight indexes for networked volumes
Authored by: ericdano on May 04, '05 01:57:26PM

This might be something Tiger server does. I imagine on non-Apple servers your stuck.



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10.4: Create Spotlight indexes for networked volumes
Authored by: koalacurioso on May 12, '05 11:36:10AM
-p Publishes the local copies of the metadata stores for the volumes
indicated to their real drives.


This is a attribute of mdutil command.
May this is a way to keep a copy of the metadata on the remote volume too. Isn't it?

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