[Samba] Searching Samba share file contents

[Kees van Vloten]

On 03-02-2023 12:31, npower wrote:
>
> On 03/02/2023 11:07, Kees van Vloten via samba wrote:
>> 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?
>
> In theory yes, but I have already got it working previously with 
> elasticsearch, elasticsearch is hugely scaleable (so additionally 
> probably would be attractive to corporations).
>
> I have at least a little (hard won) idea about the integration needed 
> to convert the WSP queries to elasticsearch, I have no idea about 
> xapian (which to be honest I hadn't heard about) what it supports and 
> what is needed to convert WSP queries to something it understands. 
> Also there is some crossover too with the spotlight support which also 
> supports elasticsearch (so there is already some knowledge about it 
> with other here)
>
> So in short I don't intend to work on getting a different indexer to 
> work right now, but internally the server has a generic api so 
> different backends should be possible in the future.
>
> If you are still interested in testing it out with elasticsearch let 
> me know
>
> Noel
>
Makes sense, elastic it is.

Next question: would it be possible to use share an elastic instance 
with other applications? I have also dovecot indexing and I am busy 
setting up wazuh, it would be nice not to have 3 separate elastic 
instances in 3 containers.

Using opensearch instead of elastic should not be an issue or is it?
>>
>> - 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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