Spotlight does not find files on Time Capsule disk

I have the 2TB time capsule configured with a DATA and FIL disks.  The DATA is used for the Time Machine backups.  The FIL disk is used as a NAS (Network Access Storage) disk.  The FIL disk works as advertised except Spotlight.  When I mount the FIL as a shared disk and go into Spotlight and seach for a file by the filename, nothing happens.  I spent hours on this.  I seached Google and found nothing.  I also tried mounting the disk as a SMB.  This works partially when I alter the search criteria to seach only "Shared".  But it only works within the folder.  It does not search the entire tree.  Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

By default, network drive is not indexed.
See here for the default list of folders that Spotlight will search:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301533
You can manually turn on spotlight on a specific volume by using Terminal and enter:
sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/X
(where "X" is the name of the network volume.)
If the index is corrupted, and you want to rebuild it, enter:
sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/X

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