samba - Dec 2020 - Compile for Elasticsearch

I?m using FreeBSD 12.2 but I think the OS is irrelevant to this question.

Basic premise is that I want to enable Spotlight search of my file server
for macOS client computers. I?ve read all the docs I can find but I?m still
left with a fundamental question:

Is it necessary to compile Samba in a particular way to enable
Elasticsearch support?

There is the build option --enable-spotlight but that SEEMS to try to pull
in Tracker stuff, not Elasticsearch. So I wonder, should that option even
be specified when building? Is there a different one for Elasticsearch? Or
specify nothing at all?

Thanks and sorry if this is the wrong place to ask. I?m a noob!

Mark

On 11/12/2020 22:40, Mark Kushigian via samba wrote:
> I?m using FreeBSD 12.2 but I think the OS is irrelevant to this question.
>
> Basic premise is that I want to enable Spotlight search of my file server
> for macOS client computers. I?ve read all the docs I can find but I?m still
> left with a fundamental question:
>
> Is it necessary to compile Samba in a particular way to enable
> Elasticsearch support?
>
> There is the build option --enable-spotlight but that SEEMS to try to pull
> in Tracker stuff, not Elasticsearch. So I wonder, should that option even
> be specified when building? Is there a different one for Elasticsearch? Or
> specify nothing at all?
>
> Thanks and sorry if this is the wrong place to ask. I?m a noob!
>
> Mark
I don't use it myself, but I think you are the right track, you just 
have to enable spotlight when you build Samba and then set up your 
smb.conf correctly and we have a wikipage to help with this: 
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Spotlight_with_Elasticsearch_Backend

Rowland