[Samba] Compile for Elasticsearch

Mark Kushigian mark at kushigian.com
Fri Dec 11 23:05:24 UTC 2020


Hi Rowland,

Thanks. Thing is, enabling that when building looks like it adds support
for Tracker, not Elasticsearch. I could be wrong! After getting Samba built
right then I’ll move on to that guide.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 17:52 Rowland penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> On 11/12/2020 22:40, Mark Kushigian via samba wrote:
> > I’m using FreeBSD 12.2 but I think the OS is irrelevant to this question.
> >
> > Basic premise is that I want to enable Spotlight search of my file server
> > for macOS client computers. I’ve read all the docs I can find but I’m
> still
> > left with a fundamental question:
> >
> > Is it necessary to compile Samba in a particular way to enable
> > Elasticsearch support?
> >
> > There is the build option --enable-spotlight but that SEEMS to try to
> pull
> > in Tracker stuff, not Elasticsearch. So I wonder, should that option even
> > be specified when building? Is there a different one for Elasticsearch?
> Or
> > specify nothing at all?
> >
> > Thanks and sorry if this is the wrong place to ask. I’m a noob!
> >
> > Mark
>
> I don't use it myself, but I think you are the right track, you just
> have to enable spotlight when you build Samba and then set up your
> smb.conf correctly and we have a wikipage to help with this:
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Spotlight_with_Elasticsearch_Backend
>
> Rowland
>
>
>
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