samba - Aug 2024 - Spotlight & accented characters in share name

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 ? 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_?_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

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 ? 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_?_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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