The SMB connector will crawl content from the samba share folder.
Introduction
The SMB connector can scan and fetch the directories and documents of a samba shared folder.
Environment and Access Requirements
Repository Support
The SMB supports crawling the following the repositories
| Repository | Version | Connector Version |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | All | 5.0 |
| Linux | All | 5.0 |
This component has been officially tested on local Windows and Linux.
Account Privileges
For the SMB connector to be able to crawl the Aspire Worker nodes must be run with a domain account with full read permissions over the shared folder to be crawled.
If the feature to "not change the last access date" is used, the account also requires write permissions.
Environment Requirements
The SMB connector was created and tested using Microsoft SMB2 Protocol.
A Samba file server installed and setup. The Samba file server enables file sharing across different operating systems over a network.
Framework and Connector Features
Framework Features
| Name | Supported |
|---|---|
| Content Crawling | Yes |
| Identity Crawling | No |
| Snapshot-based Incrementals | Yes |
| Non-snapshot-based Incrementals | No |
| Document Hierarchy | Yes |
Connector Features
The SMB connector has the following features:
- Document filtering using include and exclude regex patterns.
- Static acls can be added the documents crawled.
- Distributed File System support.
- Security Information retrieval.
- Read documents without changing the last accessed date
Content Crawled
The SMB connector is able to crawl the following objects:
| Name | Type | Relevant Metadata | Content Fetch & Extraction | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Folder | container |
| NA | The directories of the share folder. Each directory will be scanned to retrieve more directories or files |
| File | document |
| yes | The files contained by the directories in the crawled share folder. |
Limitations
The SMB Connector has the following limitations:
The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:
- SMBv3 support
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