[Samba] Searching Samba share file contents

[npower]

On 03/02/2023 12:25, Kees van Vloten via samba wrote:
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> On 03-02-2023 12:31, npower wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> 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
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> 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.
you should be able to setup multiple indexes in an elasticsearch 
instance (but... I am no expert, I just run elasticsearch locally for 
testing with a singe instance)
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> Using opensearch instead of elastic should not be an issue or is it?
no idea, I only know opensearch is based on an older version of 
elasticsearch, no idea if the rest api I use work or not with opensearch
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>>> - 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.
>>>
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>>>>> 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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