[Samba] Tweaking Spotlight

[Perttu Aaltonen]

> On 19 Nov 2021, at 14.20, Ralph Boehme via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> On 11/19/21 13:07, Perttu Aaltonen via samba wrote:
>> I’m testing Spotlight with Elasticsearch + fscrawler on Samba 4.14
>> and it’s mostly working fine. But I’d like to deal with these:
>> 1. Sometimes typing something in the Mac Finder window’s top right
>> corner doesn’t work. Either by itself or selecting “name matches:”.
>> In the log I see this:
>> [2021/11/19 11:17:08.663810,  0]
>> ../../source3/rpc_server/mdssvc/es_mapping.c:182(es_map_sl_attr) es_map_sl_attr: No JSON type mapping for [kMDItemAuthorAddresses] [2021/11/19 11:17:08.664252,  0]
>> ../../source3/rpc_server/mdssvc/mdssvc.c:973(slrpc_open_query) slrpc_open_query: backend search_start failed
> 
> latest version has
> 
>  elasticsearch:ignore unknown attribute = yes | no
> 
> and
> 
>  elasticsearch:ignore unknown type = yes | no
> 
> Cf man smb.conf.
> 
>> It might work later so it’s not always consistent. Using the same
>> search term in the more granular search section with either “contents
>> contains” or “name contains” works every time.
>> 2. Searching by file name is case-sensitive. I’m not sure how and
>> where to tweak it so Samba would return results with any case. Has
>> anyone done this modification?
> 
> hm, I don't remember off hand, but I guess this depends on how the indexer configures the indexes.
> 
> -slow
> 

Hi Ralph,

I can’t see those options in 4.15.2 man page.

-Perttu