[gfxgirl]

also IIRC Windows Index Server has done this since the late 90s. And you can certainly configure it to index across shared drives.

Not suggesting it though :P

[p_l]

Sometimes unfortunately you have no idea of the keywords to search for...

... or you drown under the ocean of unrelated finds, which is my usual experience with mass-applied windows indexing (in the form of massive corporate sharepoint)