Indexing Services

[Michael Adam]

On 2016-02-05 at 16:15 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 11:43:31PM +0000, Greg Silverman wrote:
> > Is it possible for the Linux server running samba to provide Windows or Mac
> > with the index files they use, so they will not generate indexes themselves
> > by reading all files in the share?
> > 
> > Can the samba share host a search service that clients will use, to avoid
> > indexing, themselves?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Greg Silverman
> > SF Bay Area
> 
> Noel @ SuSE has an experimental version of the Windows indexing
> server for Samba. Not completed yet (although I keep pinging him
> to do that :-). Ralph @ SerNet also has an experimental version of the
> MacOSX indexer (spotlight I think ?) again that isn't yet in
> the tree.
> 
> What's the status on these Noel and Ralph ?

AFAIK, Spotlight support has been released with Samba 4.3.
See
https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.3.0.html
and
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Spotlight

Cheers - Michael
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