[Samba] Searching Samba share file contents

[npower]

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On 03/02/2023 10:34, npower wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> While I don't have a version that works against recent versions of 
> samba I'd be happy to work on getting something working that you could 
> test against if you were interested :-)
>
> I haven't abandoned the whole idea of integrating this but it is a 
> question of time (and interest from others). In order for the search 
> capability to work you will need to run and configure an indexer on 
> the server (samba) side to catalog the files to be searched.
>
> Note: in previous iterations of the code I used gnome-tracker for this 
> purpose, however... for any new iteration of this code I don't intend 
> to support gnome-tracker but would support elasticsearch instead, it's 
> easier to configure/run and is a better match for the search 
> capabilities that the windows side expects.
>
> To use and test this you would need to:
>
>   * build samba from source OR I could provide a SUSE repository that 
> could be used with opensuse systems
>
>   * use filecrawler https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ to 
> populate the elasticsearch index
>
>   * configure elasticsearch https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch
>
> let me know if you are interested :-)
>
> Noel
>
> On 01/02/2023 20:07, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 07:58:52PM +0000, Vaughan, Robert J via samba 
>> wrote:
>>> Hello Samba listers
>>>
>>> Is there a way to search Samba share file contents from the Windows 
>>> client explorer?  This works on Windows shares.  I can't seem to get 
>>> a hit on this on Google ..
>>
>> Noel Power (Samba Team member at SuSE) has sample code implementing 
>> Windows
>> search. It hasn't been integrated yet. If you want to test it he
>> may be able to make it available to you. I'm CC:ing him on this
>> reply.
>>
>> https://sambaxp.org/archive-data-samba/sxp15/SambaXP2015-SLIDES/wed/track1/sambaxp2015-wed-track1-Noel_Power-WindowSearchProtocolAndSamba.pdf 
>>