Problem solved...
I found the KB
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885843/en-us
dowloaded the hotfix from here
http://thehotfixshare.net/download/i.../Windows%20XP/
Installed the hotfix, rebooted and its good to go now.
thanks everyone for the help.

"dan244" wrote:

> I have an xp machine that even though there are word documents in that share
> it will not find the files when I search for *.doc or even filename.doc
>
> I can navigate to the drive and get the files... its just search not working.
>
> I think theres a hot fix for this, but i cant find the KB article.
>
> thanks,
> Dan