Spotlight does not find Spotlight Comments

i've made a script on our server that makes use use of the Spotlight Comments. But when I give some files these comments and I run the script it doesn't find the documents. Also when I type it manualy in the Spotlight bar it doesn't find the files. I've tried it on serveral other macs and there it does work.
Can anybody help me? Thanks!

Leopold:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Are you sure the external HD has been indexed by Spotlight? If you're not sure you can use Spotlightindexer to force Spotlight to index that volume. You can find the app thru VersionTracker.com.

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