A spotlight search question...(How to index a sever volume)

Hi
I am hopping someone can help me with this...
When using the spotlight, content search to search a local volume, it can find almost anything.
However, it doesn't work on a server volume.
Is there a way to indexing the server volume??
Thanks.

I am experiencing the same issue, hopefully help will come!

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