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I've contacted the manufacturer about it and they are not interested in adding that functionally. I've read all the other solutions and this is my last desperate attempt to get a solution. I've been investigating this problem for weeks. Unfortunately none of these solutions are suitable. Note: The NFS feature in OS X is hidden, you will have to configure it manually.

#Disktracker osx mac

your NAS, the Mac server can then re-share the NFS volume via AFP and the Mac server can index the volume for searching via Spotlight, in effect doing a similar task to what ExtremeZ-IP/Acronis Access Connect do on a Windows Server.

A Mac server can connect to a standard NFS server i.e.

Clearly this will do what you need but it also requires a Windows server and the purchase of Acronis Access Connect. In other words it made the NAS drive both available via AFP and searchable via Spotlight. This was then extended to be able to connect to a NAS server, and re-share it via AFP from the Windows server and again index it for use with Spotlight. This originally added just an AFP server function to a standard Windows Server but more recently also added the ability to index a Windows server for access via Spotlight over AFP of course.

A company called GroupLogic which has since been bought by Acronis, made a product formerly called ExtremeZ-IP which is now called Acronis Access Connect.

#Disktracker osx manual

See Unfortunately most NAS drives do not turn this on even if they have a new enough version installed, and I cannot answer as to whether a manual option to enable it is possible, you would have to speak to the particular NAS supplier.

Many NAS drives do indeed support AFP as well as SMB and NFS, almost all such NAS drives would use an open-source version of AFP called Netatalk, the latest version of Netatalk also has the ability to index an AFP share for use with Spotlight.

There are three possible solutions I see, one of which it sounds you may not be able to do and it is up to you whether either of the others is suitable for you. Spotlight seems to only work over AFP at least with regards to NAS drives. With apple moving away from the server market I'm surprised they aren't making more tools like this available.ĭoes anyone know of tool that fit this specific requirement? Even if it could be run, Apple don't make tools available enabling the device to build it's own spotlight index

#Disktracker osx software

I don't know of any enterprise NAS that allows 3rd party software to be run. Some of the posts in this forum mention that this indexing must be performed on the NAS device. I would then have to write a search tool, I'm only familiar with writing unix daemons not gui tools. I tried looking into the spotlight API to build my own tool but it only seems to cover metadata extraction and nothing about storing the data in a way that spotlight could search. I've looked on google and pretty much any search including 'OSX' and 'file indexing' leads back to spotlight. Ideally some form of indexing daemon which builds an index that spotlight can search and is periodically run on a dedicated machine. I'm looking for a tool to index the network share and make those indexes available for searching. I've tried enabling spotlight on the network drive for an individual client however the index is stored locally on the client machine and not shared on the network, so every machine will need to build the index, which takes a long time. I'm looking for a tool to index a NAS drive shared among a team of Mac designers connected via NFS.