Spotlight on network volume

[sketch]

I mount user’s network volumes like this:
[code]/sbin/mount_smbfs -o nobrowse //emphomedir/staff$ /tmp/homedirs[/code]
I have edited /Spotlight-V100/_rules.plist like this:
[code]


EXCLUDE

INCLUDE

/private/tmp/homedirs
/tmp
/private

NOTE
Specify paths to include or exclude, preceeding rules which targ
et user-homes with ~/
[/code]
Yet whenever I open a Finder window and try an run a query on the contents of, say, /tmp/homedirs/sketch/My Documents/ I get nothing. Spotlight doesn’t even try.

Any ideas of what’s going on here?

[sketch]

further investigation has revealed the nobrowse option is the culprit.

Now I’m wondering if there’s a workaround, because the nobrowse is kind of nice.

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