AE (802.11n) shared drive - FINDER search?

[Kevin Callahan]

On Feb 21, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Roger Howard wrote:

> On Tue, February 20, 2007 8:52 pm, Scott Stevenson wrote
>> On Feb 20, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>
>>> I bought the new AE and was pretty jazzed about hanging a bunch of
>>> shared drives off of it --
>>> but without the ability to search in the Finder's search field, I
>>> don't find the shared drive feature in the new AE/n all that useful.
>>
>> It's actually a pretty reasonable default behavior if you think about
>> it. Imagine 20 Macs on a network, all trying to index a shared drive.
>> Quite a bit of traffic.
>
> What's not clear to me is whether Kevin is unable to do a basic search
> (filenames for instance) on these shares...

This morning, my LaCie 250 shared off the AE/n wasn't showing up on  
any of my 3 Macs.
If I selected the menubar's Airport Disk Utility, it would say a  
shared disk was discovered, do you want access to it (via  
password) ? ...

But, while my keychain already had the password in the textField, it  
said I had either the wrong password or there was problem with the  
connection.

I ended up launching the new Airport Extreme admin app and restarted  
the AE.
Then I was able to mount the drive successfully on my MBPro.  (Maybe  
the LaCie was in sleep mode ? and the AE/n couldn't get access to it ?)

Now that it's mounted, I can see it in the Finder's Sidebar along  
with an all-terrain drive I have connected directly to the MBPro and  
a miniStack that is hanging off a PB17.

When I select the LaCie 250 (AE shared), I can view the contents in a  
Finder window.
If I enter search criteria in the Finder's search field and hit  
return, nothing happens.  I can't search for filenames.
In contrast, if I select the all-terrain drive, I can search for  
filenames.  If I select the miniStack hanging off the PB17, I can  
search for filenames.

In other words, the LaCie 250 shared on the AE/n doesn't appear to be  
searchable using the Finder's search field - and this includes simple  
filename searches.

I can drag and drop files just fine (although I don't see a copy panel)

Again, I hope it's something to do with a setup - but there's really  
no setup other than plugging the drive into the USB port and  
providing a password for the disk.

Hope the above is clear.
Kevin


> that's been possible with
> network shares forever. Kevin, are you unable to do *any* search?  
> Or just
> Spotlight metadata searches?
>
> Also, with Tiger I understand we'll actually have the ability to use
> Spotlight over the network - what I don't know is whether the indexing
> happens on the server hosting the share (which would make sense,  
> but then
> would require OSX servers to benefit) or on the client (which would be
> abusive but support shares on any server).
>
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