In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:44:10AM +0800, Toby Oldham wrote: > I can't find any option or preference that allows me to index an > external Win2K File server I often access ... would someone explain > it to me? (on /off list, I don't mind).
Perhaps this is to prevent your systems administrator from having you arrested. For performance and administration reasons, clients should not index file servers. If an index is required, it would be preferable to have it generated on the file server (which is the only way to have a real-time index anyway). However, I'm sure that doing this for a cross-platform, multi-user system is a complex issue because each client needs to get their own "view" according to their access permissions. It would be interesting if Mac OS X Server makes any attempt at this. I realise that there may be circumstances where it would be reasonable for clients to do their own non real-time indexing of a file server, but this would be a matter of negotiation on a case-by-case basis. Other than that, perhaps non-HFS+ volumes are not supported for Spotlight indexing?
