On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:59 PM, ed <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Andre,
>
> I'm having the same problems as you with Spotlight not working and was wondering if you were able to figure out the solution? If so, do you mind sharing?
>
> Thanks,
> Ed Wu
>
>
> >Message: 12
> >Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:48:33 -0500
> >From: Andre Andrepont <email@hidden>
> >Subject: Fwd: Spotlight indexing, mdutil, and nested folder
> > searching...
> >To: MacOS X Server List <email@hidden>
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> >> From: Andre Andrepont <email@hidden>
> >> Date: June 2, 2008 3:26:30 PM CDT
> >> To: MacOS X Server List <email@hidden>
> >> Subject: Re: Spotlight indexing, mdutil, and nested folder
> >> searching...
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jun 2, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Simon Slavin wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On 2 Jun 2008, at 2:20pm, Andre Andrepont wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Maybe there's something about this configuration that Spotlight
> >>>> doesn't like?
> >>>
> >>> Not that I know of, but try issuing
> >>>
> >>> mdutil -sav
> >>>
> >>> while sitting at the server. Then you could read
> >>>
> >>> 'man mdutil'
> >>>
> >>> looking for the '-s' switch, the '-i' switch and the '-v' switch.
> >>> You could also try
> >>>
> >>> 'man mdls'
> >>>
> >>> just to see what files are and aren't indexed, to see if you can
> >>> see a pattern.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Okay, just ran mdutil -av -i and saw something interesting:
> >>
> >> server:~ admin$ mdutil -av -i /Volumes/Online_Job_Library
> >> Error: unexpected indexing state (/Volumes/Online_Job_Library)
> >> Usage: mdutil -pEsa -i (on|off) volume ...
> >> Utility to manage Spotlight indexes.
> >> -p Publish metadata.
> >> -i (on|off) Turn indexing on or off.
> >> -E Erase and rebuild index.
> >> -s Print indexing status.
> >> -a Apply command to all volumes.
> >> -v Display verbose information.
> >>
> >> Relevant line highlighted in red above. Not quite sure what to make
> >> of this "unexpected indexing state" as I've never seen this before.
> >> Also the first time I've tried being verbose with that mdutil
> >> command, also.
> >
> >Please disregard that last comment, I just realized that I got the
> >"unexpected indexing state" response because I had not specified on or
> >off after the -i command. In other news, I just completed a fresh
> >reindex of that volume, and sitting at the server I'm still returning
> >no results via Finder search or Spotlight itself. Tried running mdls
> >on a few files, but spaces in the file or folder names seems to cause
> >that to not work.
> >
> >
> >>
> >>> Simon
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I submitted a bug to apple that sounds similar. mdfind did not work
under 10.5 server while trying to search a mounted network volume (I
didn't actually test a local volume). using find would work, and using
mdfind under 10.5 client, 10.4 server, 10.4 client to use mdfind on a
non spotlight indexed volume, it would fail back to doing a standard
find instead (but you couldn't search metadata, and find would have to
parse the entire volume for each search).
my Radar# was 5881635, it was closed as "Duplicate/5657038"
Your metadata may fall under the same issue, probably because 10.5
server's md framework has to support security acls for network users
searching sharepoints with volumes. Could be that instead of making a
local MD framework and a server MD framework, they just decided to
extend the existing framework to do shared spotlight indexing, and
haven't gotten around to getting it to work with spotlight searches
done locally.
This has been around since 10.5.2, I have not verified if 10.5.4
fixed, 10.5.3 did not (we changed our workflow to use a 10.5 client
instead).
--
Chris Barker
Purveyor of Fine Suggestions
ACSA
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