Searching in MacOS

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Jeff Riggin posted this 2 weeks ago

We have a new Mac Studio (Sanoma) M3 with 16TB Pegasus3 RAID5. We are connecting using Static IP and SMB Share. We are unable to reliably search the network voulume. It just says nothing found. This happens on all Macs with varying Operating Syetems. It does search on the locally connectd Mac.

Any ideas??

R P posted this 1 weeks ago

Hi Jeff,

A quick google shows that many have issues in that macOS won't search SBM shares. Or it did search then after an OS update the search feature no longer worked.

After reading many forums, a few commonalities stood out. Maybe this will help.

There are two things listed as solutions...

  • use EasyFind
  • Open Terminal and use the following command: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mdschannel.plist MDSChannelSMBMethod RPC_ONLY

Note, I have not tested either, use at your own risk, please read the reddit for more details.

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