Actually, to Andre's point, spotlight doesn't work on CIFS, only AFP.
 
In talking with one of our desktop team folks, the specific issue isn't due to indexing (though that is an issue, not having it..) but specifically getting directory listings on the CIFS share from OS X is very slow.  Windows users do not have that problem.
 
 
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 05:22 PM, Tony Bar wrote:

Ryan –


You can disable spotlight on a per-filesystem basis, see the bottom of the link for details.


Anthony Bar

650.207.5368

tbar@berkcom.com

Berkeley Communications

www.berkcom.com


From: Ryan Pugatch [mailto:rpug@lp0.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 2:19 PM
To: Tony Bar
Cc: Toasters@teaparty.net
Subject: Re: CIFS on Mac


I don't think we would want to disable spotlight across the board.  It is useful in some cases.


Thanks,

Ryan



On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 04:03 PM, Tony Bar wrote:

Ryan -


This may help:


http://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-disable-or-enable-spotlight-in-mac-os-x-yosemite-mavericks-mountain-lion/


Anthony Bar

650.207.5368

tbar@berkcom.com
 Berkeley Communications

www.berkcom.com


On Aug 4, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Ryan Pugatch <rpug@lp0.org> wrote:


Hi all,


Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating,

and in some cases downright unusable.


It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with

Spotlight.  Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant

from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.


Have any of you found how to deal with this?


Thanks,

Ryan

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