samba - Mar 2020 - How to implement Spotlight support using ElasticSearch

Samba 4.12 release notes
<https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.12.0.html> mention "New
Spotlight backend for Elasticsearch" and specify some new parameters for
smb.conf, but there appear to be zero guides or further instructions for
getting this to work.

I'm not even clear how filesystem indexing is supposed to work.
ElasticSearch appears to be simply a searchable database system that needs
to be combined with other solutions in order to actual get data into it.
There are several references in the samba source to a file
"elasticsearch_mappings.json" usually installed in
`/usr/share/samba/mdssvc/`, but I don't see this file on any of my Samba
installs.

Basically, I'm wondering how to actually set ElasticSearch up to index the
filesystem and store the data in the format Samba expects in order to
support Spotlight.

> Basically, I'm wondering how to actually set ElasticSearch up to index
the
> filesystem and store the data in the format Samba expects in order to
> support Spotlight.
fresh from the press:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Spotlight_with_Elasticsearch_Backend

-slow

-- 
Ralph Boehme, Samba Team                https://samba.org/
Samba Developer, SerNet GmbH   https://sernet.de/en/samba/

Is the `--enable-spotlight` option still required when building Samba if
using elasticsearch?

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:19 PM Ralph B?hme <slow at samba.org> wrote:
> > Basically, I'm wondering how to actually set ElasticSearch up to
index
> the
> > filesystem and store the data in the format Samba expects in order to
> > support Spotlight.
>
> fresh from the press:
>
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Spotlight_with_Elasticsearch_Backend
>
> -slow
>
> --
> Ralph Boehme, Samba Team                https://samba.org/
> Samba Developer, SerNet GmbH   https://sernet.de/en/samba/
>