Indexing SMB Drives

[p3ncil]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to index my network SMB drives using the following commands

mdutil /Volumes/Share -i on

however it doesn't seem to work and only returns me the following :

/Volumes/Share:
    Indexing disabled.

Anyone running into a similar issue? I was able to do this on 10.11

 

[Earl Urley]

Pretty sure drives have to be in HFS+ format and have full system rights enabled for Spotlight to work.

 

[p3ncil]

I finally resolved this.

Turns out you need to create this folder as root

sudo mkdir -p /private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/Volumes/

and now simply issue the indexing command again

sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/name_of_your_volume

kudos to — https://care.qumulo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115008514788-Mac-OS-X-Spotlight-Search-and-Qumulo