[Samba] Spotlight & accented characters in share name

[Ralph Boehme]

Interesting. This will likely take a day or two to diagnose and fix. 
Hopefully someone comes around and funds this fix.

Can you please file a bugreport to we can track this and more folks 
become aware of this?

-slow

On 7/9/24 11:40 AM, Perttu Aaltonen via samba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I finally found out why I’ve had trouble getting Spotlight searches
> working well with the latest installation I’m working on. It looks
> like searches won’t work if there are any accented characters in the
> share name.
> 
> In this case it is the Ö character. Running mount in macOS shows it
> like this: //user at server.address/Share_with_the_O%CC%88_character on
> /Volumes/Share_with_the_Ö_character
> 
> For some reason it won’t use fast searches and falls back to
> traversing the whole directory tree which is obviously very slow and
> searching for file contents won’t work at all. Sharing the same
> server directory without the accented character makes fast searches
> instantly work. Unfortunately there are lots of legacy files and
> changing the share name would invalidate all links in CAD software so
> it’s not possible simply to change the share name.
> 
> With native macOS SMB shares it works, so perhaps there is something
> that could be done in Samba? Ralph, any ideas? What’s the proper log
> class to debug this?
> 
> Thanks, Perttu

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