Search of SMB shares not working (MacOS client)

Still a problem in beta-35. 

 

Am I the only who searches SMB shares or are others not experiencing this?

1 hour ago, CS01-HS said:

Am I the only who searches SMB shares or are others not experiencing this?

Are you referring to Spotlight searches for content that's stored on SMB shares, or to something else?

2 minutes ago, John_M said:

Are you referring to Spotlight searches for content that's stored on SMB shares, or to something else?

No. Just a simple search in the Finder window of a share.

In case it's not clear from my description here it is in pictures:

 

 

 

A search of "debian" in my isos share (which clearly contains it) returns no results.

Searching the full name debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso also returns no results.

 

This problem persisted through the upgrade from beta30 to beta35, and from Catalina to Big Sur.

This looks more like a macOS problem.

40 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

This looks more like a macOS problem.

Reasonable assumption but with same MacOSs searches on my Raspberry Pi share (with the standard packages) work properly.

 

*Website is the Raspberry Pi share.

 

 

I would say that only confirms it's a problem with that specific computer/OS.

4 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

I would say that only confirms it's a problem with that specific computer/OS.

It happens on multiple computers, from Mojave to Catalina to Big Sur. It worked on all of them with 6.8.3. It broke sometime after I installed the first beta (beta25.)

 

I'm pretty certain that's the culprit - the question is whether it's a bug in the release or something went wrong during the install process, maybe particular to my setup.

 

To answer that it'd be helpful to know whether it's working with the beta for anyone on MacOS.

9 minutes ago, CS01-HS said:

To answer that it'd be helpful to know whether it's working with the beta for anyone on MacOS.

Yep, maybe someone else will chime in, I don't have any Macs, only work with them when I get paid to do so at work. 😛

Testing an SMB share on Unraid 6.9.0-beta30 6.9.0-beta35 with macOS High Sierra (the latest my ancient MacBook Pro can run) I see the same as you:

The three matching files are not being found. However, If I copy the folder to a server running Unraid 6.8.3 and repeat the test, the matching three files are found.

 

Edited November 18, 2020 by John_M
Corrected Unraid version

Any update on this? It's still a problem in 6.9.0-rc1

I've done some digging on this - here's what I found.

 

Mount unraid share system on my mac and check its spotlight status:

[macbook-pro]:~ $ mdutil -s /Volumes/system
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/system:
Server search enabled.
[macbook-pro]:~ $

But as best I can tell "server search" is not in fact enabled.

 

Turns out samba 4.12.0 changed this search-related default:

Note that when upgrading existing installations that 
are using the previous default Spotlight backend 
Gnome Tracker must explicitly set "spotlight backend = tracker"
as the new default is "noindex".

 

If I add the following to SMB extras:

[global]
   spotlight backend = tracker

in addition to this share-specific code:

[system]
   path = /mnt/user/system
   spotlight = yes

 

Search works again!

 

When I check spotlight status I get the following:

[macbook-pro]:~ $ mdutil -s /Volumes/system
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/system:
Indexing disabled.
[macbook-pro]:~ $

 

Hopefully this is useful toward a general fix.

I'd rather avoid a custom entry for each share.