[Samba] Spotlight & accented characters in share name
Ralph Boehme
slow at samba.org
Mon Aug 19 14:43:31 UTC 2024
Thanks!
On 8/19/24 3:54 PM, Perttu Aaltonen via samba wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
>
> Someone has created this: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15379
> Looks like the same issue.
>
> What’s a good way to fund this? Buy Samba+ and/or support from SerNet, make a donation through samba.org or something else?
>
> -Perttu
>
>> On 19. Aug 2024, at 16.21, Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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