A catalog search issues a single search request that is processed on the server side. The Mac OS only issues an catalog search request when the Macintosh user is searching the root of a volume. Access Connect maintains a search index to accelerate these searches. This index contains the name of every file on your Access Connect volumes. With indexed searching enabled on the server, a Macintosh client can use the built-in Mac OS search functionality to perform fast searches of Access Connect volumes. No client side configuration or applications are necessary.
Instead of scanning your server’s drive each time a Macintosh client makes a search request and looking through every file in the volume, Access Connect checks the file name index to retrieve search results. Index search results can be provided only for searches initiated at the root of a volume. Any search performed below the root of a volume will result in the Mac OS performing an enumeration search.
Note: Please instruct your users to search the entire Access Connect volume for the fastest results.