Spotlight

Introduction

This page is meant to give an overview about compiling and configuring Samba with support for macOS Spotlight support.

Samba supports using either Elasticsearch or Gnome Tracker as search engine, search tool and metadata storage system.

See the following pages for details on how to set this up:

• Spotlight with Elasticsearch Backend
• Spotlight with Gnome Tracker Backend

The recommended backend for any kind of deployment is Elasticsearch.