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Re: Mojave and File Servers

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On 2019-01-16, Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:32:23 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
> (in article <ga9147Fh2tuU2@mid.individual.net>):
>
>> On 2019-01-16, Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> I can't upgrade to Mojave because my computers aren't supported.  When 
>>> I upgraded to High Sierra, I was disappointed to find out that 
>>> Spotlight wouldn't work with volumes on a remote server.  That's a 
>>> killer for me because I have a Mac Mini on my network that I use as a 
>>> file server for a bunch of USB drives.  I was wondering if this has 
>>> been fixed in Mojave.  I know a lot of you have personal networks with 
>>> file servers.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you are talking about. I'm running Mojave on my Mac
>> Pro and Spotlight searches work fine for me with shared volumes on my closet
>> Mac mini server running High Sierra. They work fine on my MacBook Pro
>> running High Sierra too. 
>
> In my case, at least, Spotlight returns no results for a mounted 
> volume.  Even the so-called "Finder Search" fails.  I searched around 
> the various help groups and found that many people reported the same 
> problem.

Different things can cause you to be unable to search a remote volume
with Spotlight, and a lot of them have nothing to do with a supposed bug
in the operating system.

> A good explanation and a fix (for Sierra) is given here:
>
> https://care.qumulo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115008514788-Mac-OS-X-
> Spotlight-Search-and-Qumulo

You said you're running High Sierra. So I don;t see how this is
relevant.

> but it doesn't work for High Sierra since there is no longer a
>
> /private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/Volumes/ folder.  It has been changed to 
> some name which concatenates the names of all remote volumes.

I don't see any concatenated name of all volumes here:

# mdutil -s /Volumes/Files
/Volumes/Files:
	Indexing enabled. 

# pwd
/Volumes/Files/.Spotlight-V100

# ls -al
total 128
drwx------   5 root  admin   170 May 18  2018 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 21 root  staff   782 Jan 10 07:16 ..
drwx------   3 root  admin   102 May 18  2018 Store-V1
drwx------   3 root  admin   102 May 18  2018 Store-V2
-rw-------   1 root  admin  4115 May 18  2018 VolumeConfiguration.plist

> Perhaps if the remote server is also running High Sierra that makes a 
> difference.  In my case the server is an old Mac Mini running Snow 
> Leopard.  All the files are visible, they are just not able to be 
> searched.

I have a machine running Snow Leopard, and Spotlight works fine on its
shared volumes from a Mac Pro running Mojave and a MacBook Pro running
High Sierra..

Has it occurred to you that the problem may be with the machine running
Snow Leopard?

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Mojave and File Servers Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-16 04:35 -0500
  Re: Mojave and File Servers Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-16 15:32 +0000
    Re: Mojave and File Servers Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-16 11:28 -0500
      Re: Mojave and File Servers Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-16 19:45 +0000
        Re: Mojave and File Servers Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-16 16:08 -0500
          Re: Mojave and File Servers Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-17 21:56 +0000
            Re: Mojave and File Servers Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-18 09:00 -0500
              Re: Mojave and File Servers "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-18 14:11 +0000
                Re: Mojave and File Servers Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-18 11:36 -0500
              Re: Mojave and File Servers Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-18 10:53 -0500
                Re: Mojave and File Servers Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-19 00:53 +0000
                Re: Mojave and File Servers Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-19 05:53 -0500
                Re: Mojave and File Servers bje@ripco.com - 2019-01-19 13:19 +0000
                Re: Mojave and File Servers "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-19 13:49 +0000
                Re: Mojave and File Servers Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-19 12:07 -0500
                Re: Mojave and File Servers Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-19 12:36 -0500
                Re: Mojave and File Servers bje@ripco.com - 2019-01-20 12:47 +0000

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