Vista - Any way to add network drive to Indexed Locations?

I would like to create a "Search Folder" with all files of a certain type
(like Excel files) that are on my computer, and on a network computer. I
can create a search that just searches the network drive (this is slow), or
a search that just searches my computer, but I can't combine the two. It
would be nice to add the network drive to my "Indexed Locations" but I see
no way to do this, even if the network drive is mapped. The problem is, if
the network drive is not "pre-indexed", the Search Folder is too slow to be
of any practical use.

Is this something that just can't be done in Vista?

"Tim" <twentworth@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:uBj2w03%23GHA.4888@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I would like to create a "Search Folder" with all files of a certain type
>(like Excel files) that are on my computer, and on a network computer.
> ...
> ...
> Is this something that just can't be done in Vista?
>

Sorry, no definite answer for you, but...

1. By default offline files are included in indexed locations so if you make
a shared folder available offline, offline cache will be indexed by search
engine.

2. There's an addon available [2] for WDS 3.0 on Windows XP [1] that enables
it to search UNC paths so I guess same functionality should be available for
Vista either in RTM or as a downloadable add-on/power toy/ultimate extra.

[1] Windows Desktop Search 3.0
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

[2] Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for UNC/FAT
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en


--
Alexander Suhovey

Thanks. Offline folders isn't really what I want - creating an offline
folder means creating a local copy and syncing with the network original,
which defeats the purpose of wanting to index the network folder. The
add-on for WDS is exactly what I'm looking for - isn't it strange that XP
has more functionality in this area than Vista?


"Alexander Suhovey" <asuhovey@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Tim" <twentworth@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:uBj2w03%23GHA.4888@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I would like to create a "Search Folder" with all files of a certain type
>>(like Excel files) that are on my computer, and on a network computer.
>> ...
>> ...
>> Is this something that just can't be done in Vista?
>>
>
> Sorry, no definite answer for you, but...
>
> 1. By default offline files are included in indexed locations so if you
> make a shared folder available offline, offline cache will be indexed by
> search engine.
>
> 2. There's an addon available [2] for WDS 3.0 on Windows XP [1] that
> enables it to search UNC paths so I guess same functionality should be
> available for Vista either in RTM or as a downloadable add-on/power
> toy/ultimate extra.
>
> [1] Windows Desktop Search 3.0
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
>
> [2] Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for UNC/FAT
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
>
>
> --
> Alexander Suhovey