samba - Nov 2022 - Spotlight with elasticsearch backend on OSX13

Hey All,

I have setup a samba fileserver in workgroup config with installed 
elasticsearch and fscrawler backend.
On my setup, the search function using OSX has been a little flaky, and 
does not return any results most of the time.
I have deployed the same setup on multiple fileservers with many 
combinations with no luck.
I went through the past emails in the mailing list and fixed a could 
things in the smb.conf and still unable to search reliably.

for eg. when I search on the "network" or "Shared", it
returns some
search results but when using the same search string on the mounted 
volume, I get no results.

my smb.conf
[global]
 ?? workgroup = WORKGROUP
 ?? log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
 ?? max log size = 1000
 ?? logging = file
 ?? log level = 5
 ?? panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
 ?? server role = standalone server
 ?? obey pam restrictions = yes
 ?? unix password sync = yes
 ?? passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
 ?? passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n 
*Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
 ?? pam password change = yes
 ?? map to guest = bad user
 ?? usershare allow guests = yes
 ?? nt acl support = no
 ?? spotlight backend = elasticsearch
 ?? elasticsearch:address = 192.168.2.3
 ?? elasticsearch:port = 9200
 ?? elasticsearch:ignore unknown attribute = yes
 ?? elasticsearch:ignore unknown type = yes
 ?? elasticsearch:index = _all
 ?? elasticsearch:mappings = 
/usr/share/samba/mdssvc/elasticsearch_mappings.json
 ?? elasticsearch:max results = 100
#?? vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr
#?? fruit:metadata = stream
#?? fruit:model = MacSamba
#?? fruit:posix_rename = yes
#?? fruit:veto_appledouble = no
#?? fruit:nfs_aces = no
#?? fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes
#?? fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes

[Masterfiles]
 ?? comment = Masterfiles
 ?? path = /home/data/Masterfiles
 ?? read only = no
 ?? create mask = 0770
 ?? directory mask = 2770
 ?? force create mode = 0770
 ?? force directory mode = 2770
 ?? force group = allstaff
 ?? valid users = @administrators @allstaff
# ? vfs objects? = catia fruit streams_xattr
#?? fruit:resource = file
#?? fruit:encoding = native
 ?? spotlight = yes

I am stuck and unable to move forward, does anyone have any suggestions?
Please let me know if you need logs too.
help appreciated.