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Hello all,
I have 3 Macs updated to 10.9 and a brand new Mavericks Server with 10.9.1.
Clients can access server file shares correctly but their spotlight are not indexing server shares.
Does someone can tell me how can I do that?
Many thanks!
Simon

Hi Linc,
I'm experiencing the same problem. I've installed a new 10.9 server and migrated from a 10.6.8 server.
Steps taken on the server so far: done "mdutil -E /" and "mdutil -i /"
The output on a client:
Indexing enabled.
/Volumes/ARCHIEF_BACKUP_A:      Server search enabled.
/Volumes/ARCHIEF_BACKUP_B:      Server search enabled.
/Volumes/ARCHIEF_BACKUP_C:      Server search enabled.
/Volumes/DATATANK:      Server search enabled.
/Volumes/KLANTENSCHIJF:      Server search enabled.
/Volumes/WEBSITES:      Server search enabled.
No luck yet in getting search results on a client computer...
Greetings...Rick

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