Win7, adding network share to Library.  Share is on 2008 server, with Windows Search Services, and indexed on the server -- Error: "This network location can't be included because it is not indexed."
Okay, I've searched all over, and found a few people with the same problem as this, but nobody with a solution. When I try to add my user share into my documents library, I get the error "This network location can't be included because it is not indexed." As best I can tell, I've got everything set up to where this should work: My workstation runs Windows 7 Enterprise My user share is on a 2008 server Windows Search Service is installed on the server The entire data drive on the server is indexed. What am I missing?
July 23rd, 2010 8:00pm

Windows 7 cannot work with network shares so easily. You need to be in a domain to get that working the way you want.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe I also am a true vegan and I am very good with economics and I used to play chess at 2400++
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July 24th, 2010 12:51am

Hi Gai-jin, Thanks for your post! Your error message is as same as here http://xpworld.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3110BDF94643CB31!1887.entry .This blog could help you find the cause and fix the problem. Hope it can help you! Best Regards, Miya Yao
July 27th, 2010 11:11am

Thanks Miya for your suggestion, but that article doesn't seem to offer anything new. As I mentioned in the OP, the share is on a 2008 server with Windows Search Service installed and the share is on an indexed drive. I believe I've met all the requirements listed in that post.
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July 27th, 2010 4:01pm

The client and server are in the same domain.
July 27th, 2010 4:02pm

As per a suggestion here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/f62cca43-0c13-41fb-a23a-e1dfb107f19f/?prof=required I was able to add a smaller network share to the library without trouble. Now the question is if the issue can be fixed with larger shares, and what the threshold is in the mean time.
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July 27th, 2010 4:12pm

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