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What about NFS mounts?
Authored by: bankshot on May 04, '05 05:41:59PM
I have a few shares automounted from my FreeBSD server, and I sure would like to index those in Spotlight. I was poking around with the md* commands and tried this the other day, but it didn't work:

% sudo mdutil -i on /private/var/automount/home/mp3
/private/var/automount/home/mp3:
        Could not set indexing status for volume.

I've tried enabling root access in the exports on my server (that gives me the willies) but it didn't help. Mounting the share directly using the mount_nfs command (bypassing the automounter) didn't help either. I suppose I could try remounting them as Samba shares to see if there's any inherent difference. Don't know why there would be, though.

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What about NFS mounts?
Authored by: MattHaffner on May 04, '05 05:46:49PM
Well, I don't know the details of the setup, but our uber-admin just e-mailed me this in response to some Spotlight tips I forwarded:

I just "finished" installing 10.4 on one of the "clustered" Macs and when I tried using splotlight I was amazed to find that it had already indexed my (NFS mounted) home directory.


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Indexing works, but no results
Authored by: markju on May 12, '05 09:56:33AM
I have several NFS mounts (from Solaris and OSX) and tried the following (assuming the NFS share is mounted as /nfs):
# mdimport -f /nfs (takes a while...)
# mdutil -i on /nfs
/nfs:
    Status: Indexing Enabled
# mdutil -E /nfs
/nfs:
    Volume index removed. Index will be rebuilt automatically.
Spotlight starts indexing, but no results show up.

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