The network drive mess gets even worse in windows 8

[TPreston]

I was hoping this mess (the inability of windows to index a network share) would have been sorted in windows 8 but its gotten worse as the video and music application doesn't even show any media on network shares.

The only solution ive seen proposed is to enable offline files however its not going to make 5TB+ of media available on a 120GB SSD so its hardly a solution.

Ive tried using shlib.exe to add the network share to the video and music library's and it works in explorer but without indexing and not in the video/music application.

I was wondering if anyone here knows how to get remote media into these applications, My files are on a Server 2012 RAID if that makes any difference.

[c.grz]

We use Windows 7 here at work and we are able to index network shares. What OS is running on the machine doing the sharing?

[TPreston]

We use Windows 7 here at work and we are able to index network shares. What OS is running on the machine doing the sharing?

32bit ? they released an addon for indexing but its 32bit only. The files are shared on a server 2012 raid and ive added "system" to the ntfs permissions of the entire drive

[c.grz]

You need to enable Indexing on the server.

The role is called "Windows Search Service"

[TPreston]

You need to enable Indexing on the server.

The role is called "Windows Search Service"

Yes ive already enabled the search service and the sever has the files indexed but afik the issue is the client and the indexing options there, The mapped drive dosnt show up even in advanced mode & the unc addon is 32bit only

[TPreston]

after looking over the indexing settings (the settings never followed through from the add features dialog) it finally works so the unc addon is just for people with nas devices then,

Thanks for the help