Spotlight on Network?

[mcs37]

I was impressed by Spotlight (and it's about time someone from SOME OS company has finally released a good search system). But does Spotlight crawl the local subnet shared folders too? Cuz that would be slick. :D I'm sure it will crawl networked drives but shared folders too? Anyone know?

[7on]

Probably if the share is mounted. And then it also depends on the network speed/setup. Hopefully someone with preview version can test

[jane doe]

yes it does, it grabs the meta data from the files on that volume providing that you have the proper permissions.

[mcs37]

yes it does, it grabs the meta data from the files on that volume providing that you have the proper permissions.

But does the volume have to be mounted? I am living in a house starting this September with 4 other people, and how awesome it would be to have instant file search over all shared folders (not necessarily mounted folders, but shared on the Windows network). I wrote a program that did this years ago, and I'm sure someone has done a new one today that's nice and fast, but I think it would be tremendous to have it all done instantly by 10.4.

I'm impressed with 10.3 and 10.4. Now only if they had G5 PowerBooks to support the 64-bit OS.... guess I'll have to wait until January.