Using spotlight to search through stored media files

i have an xserve that will only be used to store media files such as .dv and .mxf. I add spotlight comments to the media files before storing them in the xserve, however, when i use spotlight to search the server it does not work. Is it because it is a security issue or do i have to turn spotlight on in the server?

Using Spotlight to search a server is something that's coming with Leopard. To avoid the TOS gestapo for slamming me for posting about future products, I will link to Apple's page for "Leopard Server sneak peek" that talks about this very fact:
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/leopard/spotlightserver.html
Your options right now for searching a server are to use Apple Remote Desktop, as Tiger does not include the ability to search machines across the network via Spotlight.

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