Why will spotlight only search my HD and not shared volumes?

spotlight gives me the choice to search shared volumes but will not produce any find results.
This is really causing us production issues.
Thanks for any help

You can keep Spotlight from indexing a volume altogether by placing the Volume in the Privacy section of the Spotlight system preference. You would do this for instance, for your Backup volume, because otherwise Spotlight would find duplicates of all your data. Is it possible this is the case?
I have seen where the solution is to add the volume to privacy, to not index and then remove. This seems to make spotlight index the volume. If that does not work, here is an article that details how to manually have spotlight manually index an external drive:
http://forum.multiplexapp.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=17
Notice the caveat in the article
There are some potential drawbacks to indexing network drives, especially those with large amounts of storage. First, if your drive holds tens or hundreds of thousands of files, indexing can be slow and tedious to the OS, and may affect your operating system's performance.
Might be wise to index during off hours.
Cheers
Michael

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