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To enable spotlight indexing on a network drive open terminal and enter the following command:<br />
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41809911-1"><span> mdutil /Volumes/name -i on</span>
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@nappy_d, <br />
Tried the command without luck. ran it as root<br />
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41809913-1"><span>test-001:~ root# mdutil /Volumes/media/ -s</span>
<span>/Volumes/media:</span>
<span>	Indexing and searching disabled.</span>
<span>test-001:~ root# mdutil /Volumes/media/ -i on</span>
<span>/Volumes/media:</span>
<span>	Indexing and searching disabled.</span>
<span>test-001:~ root# mdutil /Volumes/media/ -s</span>
<span>/Volumes/media:</span>
<span>	Indexing and searching disabled.</span>
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Did you turn &nbsp;indexing using this command?<br />
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<li> mdutil /Volumes/name -i on</li>
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yes, you can see the result from my previous post
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Why are you running this command as root?
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There is a free search utility called &quot;EasyFind&quot;, it does not user searchlight. I use it, but not on SMB shares.
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You can also go to the command line and use the unix <b>find</b> command.<br />
<br />
<b>find /Volumes/SMB_Share_Folder &nbsp;-name &quot;search01&quot;<br />
</b><br />
This will take a little while if your folder has a lot of files.<br />
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If you want a spotlight type search speed on the command line and always remain connected to your SMB share, you can enable locate.<br />
<br />
<b>sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaem<wbr />ons/com.ap<wbr />ple.locate<wbr />.plist<br />
</b><br />
Once everything is indexed, you just use:<br />
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<b>locate &quot;search01&quot;<br />
</b><br />
Is your SMB share permanently connected? &nbsp;I don't believe that Spotlight will work well if you are not always connected to the share. &nbsp;Differences that may have appeared in between mounts will not show up until it is re-indexed. &nbsp;That &nbsp;goes for the command line locate as well.
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Thank you guys, I manged to turn on index on the smb drive. <br />
but the index function is really unstable. &nbsp;it works for a while and then stopped working.<br />
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I also checked the window server index function is turned on. <br />
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&quot;Easy find&quot; is a great app and much faster. <br />
But this mac user 's part daily work is to upload stuff from the smb drive by searching the name to a website.<br />
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I will try to upgrade the osx to 10.11 that maybe able to fix this issue.
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OSX version 10.9.5 or 10.10.5<br />
wndows version : windows 2008 R2<br />
Shared folder path: smb://server01/sharedFolde<wbr />r<br />
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When I open the smb shared folder and type in a file name&quot;search01&quot;. finder shows &quot;Searching &quot;search01&quot;&quot; and stay there forever.<br />
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Is it &nbsp;a mis-conifguration issue or OSX doesn't support smb indexing?<br />
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Thank You
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OSX version 10.9.5 or 10.10.5
wndows version : windows 2008 R2
Shared folder path: smb://server01/sharedFolder

When I open the smb shared folder and type in a file name"search01". finder shows "Searching "search01"" and stay there forever.

Is it  a mis-conifguration issue or OSX doesn't support smb indexing?


Thank You

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