Searching work servers with Spotlight

Having issues with Spotlight, it seems to be working fine locally but cannot retrieve the files and folders required from any servers that we have in our office, which is frustrating when looking for older files on our Archive etc...
Is there a preference that I need to click on to allow this?
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks.
G5 Apple Mac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

First of all, Tiger's Spotlight technology is not intended for Window servers. (See below)
Spotlight Support for Network Homes
"Perform a Spotlight search on network-based Home directories in addition to searching local hard drives."
Leopard will expand to search on servers running Mac OS X Leopard Server. http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/spotlight.html
"The Spotlight store retains information that the plug-ins extract in two separate indexes: one for metadata and the other for content. This provides important performance benefits, because Spotlight doesn’t waste time looking through its massive content index unless specifically requested. Each index is created on a per-volume basis, which means each disk or partition carries its own set of indexes for the information on that volume.
Spotlight works with most locally mounted volumes that can be read and written to, including FireWire and USB/ flash drives. Some volumes, such as Windows-formatted drives, are not indexed automatically. You can change this easily by opening the Info window for the volume in the Finder." http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/MacOSXSpotlightTB.pdf
For sure if you are searching network drives, use Command-f and make sure that the drive (volume) you are searching in is shared (connected) and selected. Keep in mind that the volume you are searching in may not be indexible, e.g., CDs, but can be searched using the (old) Find command.

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