Well I am one step forward, I got indexing working using the mdutil procedure from the link but only after I updated to the latest DSM operating system and enabled AFP.

Now OSX Finder searches on the NAS work and are very fast but Spotlight is not picking up the NAS, any ideas?
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Peter.

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