So - again - there's no indication that other companies are supporting it, Apple would have to open-source some aspects of Spotlight and I haven't heard about that happening. I would expect improved searching of non-Apple file-servers would be something Apple &/or others would already be making a lot of noise about, so I wouldn't expect any great change with this, sadly.Īpple revised their own server software to support Spotlight calls over/via their own custom build of SMB. It's frowned on in general, not solely by me.ĪPFS is the local filesystem, so that has zero bearing on your question. Not sarcastic, just pointing out that from here, it looks like you jumped in with your question, necro-posting and not having read the whole thread (which has only just reached a 2nd page, so it's not even all that long). Not sure the sarcastic "Sorry but did you actually read the whole thread ?" was really needed but thanks anyway! Thanks - yes I did read the whole thread, a lot can change in a year and with the new MacOS being on APFS and the fact they no long support sharing from this new OS over AFP i wasn't sure if anything might have changed. Synology has some kind of search utility offered with/for some of their products, but I haven't worked with it as of yet. It's not something that Apple can "just" fix on their own. Without vs_fruit performance will not be comparable, and searching via Spotlight will be problematic at best.Ībsent other vendors suddenly supporting the custom calls that Spotlight makes, the answer to your question is quite probably, no. Microsoft is extremely unlikely to ever bring that in to their implementation (which is of course SMB/CIFS rather than Samba). Samba (4.2 and later) recently added that in, via vs_fruit Here's the thing: Apple extended the SMB protocol in their implementation to support metadata lookup - technically this is allowed. Double-negative necro-posting finger-wag for you ! 8-D Sorry, but it looks like you posted without actually reading the whole thread. Sorry to bring up my old thread again, does anyone know if this is sorted with MacOS High Sierra - can you now index and search SMB shares? With 40,000 Macs at my last job we didn't have an issue with AFP shares. I have never seen a resolution to this but our experience is the opposite to yours, terrible issues with SMB because OS X and Windows SMB struggle to co-operate, installing Acronis resolves this but you are left with potential issues with Adobe. They only support copying to local drive and editing then copying back SMB seems to be the only way to get around this other issue and since moving to SMB the Adobe issue has gone but we now have this searching issueĪdobe does not support opening saving files from ANY type of share AFP or SMB. Adobe wouldn't help because we were using network shares to save files which Adobe apparently don't support We used to use that but encountered a bug with Adobe and AFP shares - the fix was to move to SMB shares.
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