Find Command not working on non-boot drives

When executing a find (command f) in the finder, it appears the find does not work on any non-boot drive.
For example, in my Mac Pro (10.5.6), the find command works fine for the boot device, but when selecting another internal drive or a connected server in the resulting finder window, the find never returns any results, even if I search for a known file.
I have checked my Spotlight preferences and nothing has been excluded in the Privacy tab. (Isn't Find different from spotlight, anyway?)
Very confusing. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

I'm not using Leopard but on Tiger there's a bunch of buttons in the Find window to select where to search.
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