[Samba] Search in Samba ?
npower
npower at samba.org
Fri Aug 4 08:44:19 UTC 2023
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Hi Joachim,
On 03/08/2023 09:51, Joachim Lindenberg via samba wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am wondering when and what is going to happen w.r.t. search.
> Searching the list, the last question was around April 2020, I also
> watched the video of Samba XP 2023, but unfortunately that is very
> unspecific w.r.t. both features and timeline.
First of all thanks for the interest and offers of help. Regarding
above, on the linux client side, featurewise I am trying to at least
provide a cli tool that allow similar simple searches that you can
perform from windows explorer, that is searching based on type (e.g.
kind), and/or logical combinations of various properties connected
together by (and | or | not) logical operations into an expression. A
freetext phrase can also be passed.
on the server side the plan is to support those same searches (whether
originating from the simple client or from windows (but in the windows
case initially targeting those searches produced by explorer)) The
windows search protocol searches are converted into an
elasticsearch/opensearch query. Results are similarly converted and
returned to the client
very simply there is no timeline, this is a project I am working on when
I can in my spare cycles. As mentioned at the sambaxp presentation there
is a merge request to get the client side code into samba, this is a
first step, the client code provides alot of backbone code needed for
the server implementation. The review request
https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/2785 has had some
minor review but this is a complex protocol and there is alot of code to
review. I reverted the review request to draft yesterday or the day
before as I wanted to improve some of the code a bit. I intend to remove
the draft tag as soon as I can.
>
> Right now I am running three Samba DCs only plus domain members for
> authentication only, but no file servers, as to me search and
> fail-over are the top priorities (in that order). Search does work for
> me with Windows (desktop or server) including full-text-search
That I don't understand, windows search is windows -> windows and you
say you have no samba fileservers involved so windows search triggered
by a windows client against a windows share should work. Can you explain
how you are searching ? or what is failing
> , fail-over is an issue. With Samba I suppose I could get replication
> and fail-over via GlusterFS
> (https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/GlusterFS), but search is unavailable.
>
> I´d be willing to spend some cycles on testing or documentation. So
> far I never built Samba myself, but am going to try that.
>
> Who else is interested and willing to offer something?
I can help to a certain extent with compiling, I believe from further
messages that you are using Debian/Ubuntu (which I have no experience
with) but of course with generic build issues I do :-)
>
> Or what alternatives are around? There might be even value in
> collecting use cases and alternatives. E.g. I found the question
> https://superuser.com/questions/1675272/how-do-i-get-windows-10-to-index-mapped-network-drives
> but the answer only reveals searches by file name or attributes, none
> providing full-text-search.
That question seems to relate to (non-windows) network drives which of
course don't implement the windows search service therefore can not
service the search requests.
When a windows client (or I should say a windows search client) issues a
search request against the device serving the network share it tries to
use the windows search protocol, if the device is windows search
protocol aware (and provides the associated service) the the search is
performed on the device itself against the indexed content otherwise it
searches over the network
Noel
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