Is there a way to get Windows 7 to index shared network drives?

I was able to do this in Windows XP Search and using something like Copernicus.

I don't see any way to do this with Windows 7 (other than making it available offline which means that all that data will be duplicated on my local drive.

What I've tried : I read elsewhere in the Windows 7 Help that you need to make sure the networked drive is indexed by it's O/S. So this network drive is on our Server (XP Pro, SP3) so I've installed Windows Search 4.0 and set it to indexing that drive.

I have another XP machine which is already indexed and Windows 7 still wouldn't let me add that drive to a Library (to get it indexed) because it's not indexed. So I'm not hopeful that the above solution will work.

Go to the search settings. (Open the Control Panel, click "Indexing Options")

Open "Advanced Options" and choose "Add UNC Location"

Posting because after all these years this is still a relevant problem (often because people want to add shares to libraries--which require indexing). Answers from sevenforums.com and social.technet.microsoft.com include:

• The add UNC patch for indexing shares works, though initially indexing a share seems to be slow. While the patch seems to work on windows 7 32bit, there is no 64 bit solution.
• Make available offline is not a practical solution.
• Use a 3rd party indexer such as X1 search, archivarius, Isys Search or Copernic.
• Adding network shares to a library via WMP seems to also index them (unverified). It requires changing the location of a symbolic link e.g. 'my documents' to a network location, then adding that location to a library within WMP, WMP will index the share.