Spotlight search for network volumes

[MacLawyer]

We'd like to enable each Mac to do a Spotlight search a volume that is on our network, but not physically attached. Is there a terminal hack or utility that can help?

Many thanks!

 

[stridemat]

Im not sure if it works, but I found this on another webiste:

USE THE TERMINAL OPTION mdutil.
It has a switch, -i, to enable indexing on a volume. So I just went ahead as root (sudo bash) and ran:

sudo bash. (my network drive example is named "ldm" so replace ldm by your network drive name)

mdutil /Volumes/ldm -i on

Then I checked the status with

mdutil /Volumes/ldm -s

And, behold ... I got back the following:

/Volumes/ldm/:
Status: Indexing Enabled