[Samba] Adding indexing to samba AD question.

[L.P.H. van Belle]

Hello Jonathan, 

Great, thank you for reporting this back. 
I've not had time to do this, so great to hear this works fine. 

Best regards, 

Louis 

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens 
> Jonathan Hunter via samba
> Verzonden: donderdag 9 november 2017 9:16
> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Adding indexing to samba AD question.
> 
> Hi Louis,
> 
> I just checked and I can confirm that this does work, I have 
> my own custom
> attributes in the @INDEXLIST in my AD:
> 
> root at dc1:/# ldbsearch -H /usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb  -s base -b
> @INDEXLIST
> # record 1
> dn: @INDEXLIST
> @IDXONE: 1
> @IDXVERSION: 2
> @IDXATTR: mycustomattrib1
> @IDXATTR: mycustomattrib2
> @IDXATTR: volTableIdxGUID
> @IDXATTR: USNIntersite
> @IDXATTR: uSNCreated
> @IDXATTR: uSNChanged
> [...]
> distinguishedName: @INDEXLIST
> 
> # returned 1 records
> # 1 entries
> # 0 referrals
> 
> I've gone back over my notes from when I created this, and I 
> think that in
> my case I added the searchFlags: 1 attribute directly whilst adding my
> custom attributes to my AD schema; but I can't imagine it 
> wouldn't also
> work if you add it later. Mine have been in place for the 
> last 2.5 years,
> at any rate.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> On 2 November 2017 at 15:07, Andrew Bartlett via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2017-10-27 at 10:36 +0200, L.P.H. van Belle via samba wrote:
> > > Hai,
> > >
> > > I need to add some extra indexing on my AD DB, and im not 
> sure if what
> > the correct/best methode is.
> > > And is there any reason i should not do this, i did 
> search on the wiki,
> > but could not find the info i searched for.
> > >
> > > I know the following. Checked the current index. ( source info :
> > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LDB )
> > > ldbsearch -H /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb  -s base -b @INDEXLIST
> > > So i have a current list of indexes set and i did see 
> that i miss and
> > what i want.
> > >
> > > I want to index one/several of my mail attributes for 
> zarafa/kopano.
> > > zarafaAccount/kopanoAccount
> > >
> > > Can someone or guide me a bit or point my to the correct 
> info howto do
> > this, since i dont want to mess up my AD. ;-)
> > >
> > > I did see an instruction for Zentyal, but vanilla samba, does not
> > contain the searchFlags attribute.
> > > (source : https://exekias.me/2015/05/06/samba-indexes/ )
> > > So to me the link here is not correct for me.
> > >
> > > Anyone? Tips examples very apriciated.
> >
> > This link looks correct, setting this via searchFlags is the correct
> > approach.  The @INDEXLIST is then updated by Samba at or before the
> > next startup, triggering a re-index (possibly slow).
> >
> > Also note that Samba 4.7 is much, much faster than previous 
> versions in
> > the un-indexed case.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
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