[Samba] Searching Samba share file contents

[Kees van Vloten]

On 03-02-2023 11:37, npower via samba wrote:
> Resending (maillist subscription error) apologies if you are receiving 
> this again
>
> 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
Hi Noel,

I would be interested in getting this working. There are a few obstacles 
however:

- Do you really need java and elasticsearch? Would it be feasible to use 
something more lightweight like xapian?

- I am currently using mjt's debian repo (for debian bullseye). I guess 
my best option is to build the packages myself from mjt's debian source 
with your extra patches and compile options. Not a big issue but it 
takes some time to set that up :-)

- Kees.

>>
>> 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 
>>>
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