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

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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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 ? 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
>