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boots1
Jul 25, 2011Aspirant
Lion breaks Spotlight searching
Since upgrading to Lion, Spotlight refuses to return results for my AFP mounted shares. Pro 6 with 4.2.18. I've been searching around for others reporting this issue but have drawn a blank. Could some...
sphardy1
Jul 25, 2011Apprentice
My understanding is that the Netatalk team have been working on re-enabling Spotlight support for AFP shares in Netatalk 2.2. So if you have upgraded to one of the recent firmware releases (4.2.18 or 4.1.8, depending on NAS) then spotlight searching may work (See: http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/2.2/Rel ... beta4.html).
But for SL users with older versions of NAS firmware, this feature has been disabled for a long, long time
I have both SL and Lion running with 4.2.17 firmware and AFP searching is not supported
But for SL users with older versions of NAS firmware, this feature has been disabled for a long, long time
I have both SL and Lion running with 4.2.17 firmware and AFP searching is not supported
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