Indexing a NAS across two systems for Spotlight

Hey all. I work for a graphics department of small business. The resident IT guy doesn't know anything abut the Macs that we use for all our designwork, so its kinda up to me to figure out all this stuff here as the resident nerd among my coworkers.
Anyways, we currently have two systems in the office, a 2012 Intel iMac running OS X 10.7, and a dinosaur orignal Power Mac G5 running 10.5. We have a ton of files spread across both systems, and use Spotlight to pull up stuff we need quickly (as I'm sure most of you do as well XP)
However, despite both systems being on the asme network with sharing enabled, we can't index the others drive to enable spotlight searching of the other systems content. This makes sense as I don't believe OS X is able to index another systems internal drive. So I was thinking of getting a NAS, consolidating and moving all the content we use from both systems onto said NAS, then indexing that drive on both desktops, alowing us to easily spotlight search for everything we normally use on both systems.
I know you can easily set up a local USB or Firewire drive to be indexed via Terminal, but I'm not sure if the same thing applies to a NAS. Googling around has brought up some conflicting conjectures from multiple sources. I figure before I drop $150 of company money, I'd get a second opinion if I'm on the right track here ^_^;
Thanks for your time, appreciate any advice you may be able to provide!

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