Spotlight on network volume

[sketch]

I mount user’s network volumes like this:

/sbin/mount_smbfs -o nobrowse //emphomedir/staff$ /tmp/homedirs

I have edited /Spotlight-V100/_rules.plist like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.
com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>EXCLUDE</key>
        <array/>
        <key>INCLUDE</key>
        <array>
                <string>/private/tmp/homedirs</string>
                <string>/tmp</string>
                <string>/private</string>
        </array>
        <key>NOTE</key>
        <string>Specify paths to include or exclude, preceeding rules which targ
et user-homes with ~/</string>
</dict>
</plist>

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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