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I thought everything was running fine and that everyone was getting access to all documents (including huge data stored in a global shared folder) while searching.
Yes, they were getting all the data. However, it would not open or download from the extranet (even when I tried from the extranet, it worked. But then again, I forgot, I was accessing it using VPN ).
Thanks to Google groups and tedious searches, I found this link:

Search results file share content only available within network

The easy way is:

Add a Virtual Directory under SharePoint Portal Server. Point this to the shared folder in the network. Make this virtual directory as unmanaged path.
(At this point, I tried to add this, as a search location. I allocated all rights to the content user, but still it didn't scroll any documents. There is no need to add this in the search location).

Add the network share as a content source and then add a search server maping. It is available in Search settings, General Content Settings and Indexing Status.
Rebuild the Index.

You can now, access the contents from anywhere.