Finder search on shared volumes: Works on 10.7, not on 10.8

In our office, we have a Mac Mini acting as a local server running OS X 10.8.3 with an external hard drive connected. Each person in our office connects to the Mac Mini through an idividual user account, so that we can control each user's access to the folders on the external hard drive. Some users are on OS X Lion and others are on OS X Mountain Lion.
All of our Lion computers are able to connect to the Mac Mini and do a Finder search for any items in the shared volume. So a filename search for ".doc" on the "Shared" scope returns all Word documents on our Mac Mini server which they have permission to access.
That same feature is not working properly for users connecting through Mountain Lion. When a Mountain Lion user does the same search - filename containing ".doc" - no results are returned initially, however if they toggle the search scope back and forth (like from "Shared" to "This Mac") a few times, eventually some results show up on the Shared search.
But with this issue, we can't be confident that the results listed by any search are complete or not. Our business generates a lot of documents and audio files each day and the search function is a crucial part of our daily workflow.
The Mac Mini server has recently been upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion 10.8.3, and Mountain Lion users have just upgraded from 10.8.2 to 10.8.3, however the issue is still the same: users connecting with Lion 10.7.5 can search shared volumes properly, but users connecting with Mountain Lion 10.8.3 cannot.
Is there a solution to this that doesn't require a downgrade to Lion?

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According to: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#spotlight, I should be able to "...search any connected Mac with Personal File Sharing enabled or a file server that’s sharing its files."
It doesn't specify what "file server", so I presume it means Spotlight should be able to search any mounted shared volume (assuming, of course, that indexing has been enabled).
I have a NAS device that I want to be able to search with Spotlight. According to mdutil, the volume is enabled for indexing, but I don't see any results when I search under "Shared" in Finder via Cmd+F. (I checked, and there's no .Spotlight folders on the volume.)
From what I recall, under Tiger you could manually specify a network volume to index, but if you dismounted the volume, you'd have to re-enable indexing on next mount. This worked for other file systems (such as Fat32 & NTFS), as well as for HFS+ drives.
According to mdutil in Leopard, the volume is still enabled for indexing even across dismounts. The NAS drive is not HFS+ formatted, but uses XFS.
I've tried deleting the index, to no avail.
Has anyone successfully used Spotlight to search mounted volumes on volumes not shared via another Mac?
Am I missing something?

You have not missed anything.... Leopard promises but does NOT deliver.
I use an AFP server with Bonjour enabled. And NO NO NO Spotlight search is possible on this network volume...
This is outrageous and FALSE information....
Oh and - that Leopard is Sporting 300 new features is false info too.... Not even the "What is New in Leopard" says anything about 300 features.. But it sounds great doesn't it....

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Clients are 10.5.1, conntecting to a Leopard server 10.5.1
when the clients try to search for a file by contents or name, nothing is every returned, it does not seem to try (no delay or spinner)
the results are the same if they click into the server first (to get the shared point name in the top of the search window) or if they open any other finder window
searches of the local volume works perfectly
Filesharing is working as intended on all clients, they have read and write on the files in question.
its just that all searches return no results
any ideas?

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3. If this works, continue copying or moving items from the old share to the new one. If you encounter problems, the last items moved or copied were probably troublesome. If you don't have trouble, then continue moving/copying items until the original share point is empty (or contains the same contents). Later you can delete the original share if you're happy about the status of the new one.
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UDP Port 500 (IKE)
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TCP Port 1723 (PPTP)
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I have a problem with a G5 that is on a network with a Mini and a G4, both set to up for Sharing. The Mini is also a print server.
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spotlight gives me the choice to search shared volumes but will not produce any find results.
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You can keep Spotlight from indexing a volume altogether by placing the Volume in the Privacy section of the Spotlight system preference. You would do this for instance, for your Backup volume, because otherwise Spotlight would find duplicates of all your data. Is it possible this is the case?
I have seen where the solution is to add the volume to privacy, to not index and then remove. This seems to make spotlight index the volume. If that does not work, here is an article that details how to manually have spotlight manually index an external drive:
http://forum.multiplexapp.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=17
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Snow Leopard Finder's Get Info fails to show Owner and Group for some files or folders which reside on a Shared Volume, hosted by G5 Server w/ OS 10.4 - why?

Frustrations with file permissions abound, as certain co workers are unable to manually determine their level of permission or who to ask to make changes to files and folders belonging to others. Users of Snow Leopard desktop OS get unhelpful feedback via Finder's Get Info, seeing only the permissions listed for "Everyone" and a statement that "You have custom access". The custom message exists, presumably, because ACL's are employed on the shared volume in an attempt to give managerial control over these volumes to specific users, even if all users can create files and folders on those volumes.
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Index (search button) in finder and mail doesn't work after installing mountain lion, index doesn't work after installing mountain lion

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When I attempt to search via Finder, I enter the name of a file I know exists on one of these drives (just to test the process out) in the Search box in Finder. I click the Shared and File Name buttons, but nothing happens, no files found, nothing, zip, nada.
I know this file exists on one of these drives.
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Apparently this is a bug in 10.5.6.
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We can search within individual folders on a Sharepoint, but cannot perform a search of the entire sharepoint.
Strange.
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