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Official Enterprise Search | Workplace Search - Network Drives Connector
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Doc: What kind of network paths do we support? #15

Closed ppf2 closed 2 years ago

ppf2 commented 2 years ago

Will be helpful to document the type of network drive paths we support, e.g. will it work against any network drives as long as the network paths are using local path, UNC, SMB, Windows mapped drivers, etc..

serenachou commented 2 years ago

FYI @elastic/ent-search-docs-team

serenachou commented 2 years ago

Thanks for filing the issue @ppf2 !

izmaxxsun commented 2 years ago

If it helps, I was able to set up this connector on some development VMs (running on GCP). For the network file share I set up a Samba share on Debian 11 (I'm a newb on this so I followed this tutorial). I totally messed up on specifying the path in the smb.conf by pointing to "/public" instead of where my files actually were "{HOME_DIR}/public" which got me hung up for a while.

Inside Workplace Search (I had self managed version 8.2.2 running), I didn't see "Custom Content Source" or the "Configure Network Drives Connector" option making me wonder if I missed a step somewhere but I forged on by picking "Custom API Source".

From there, it was a bunch of YML config change for the "network_drive_connector.yml" file which would be nicer if it's in a UI but I managed to eventually set all the options correctly. The "enable_document_permission" defaulted to true so that threw a wrench in things until I realized I needed to turn it off. I think the error message said to check my user permission mappings so it took a minute to realize it meant the document permissions.

serenachou commented 2 years ago

@nirav-elastic will ya'll be looking at updating this information? FYI @chriscressman @leemthompo

serenachou commented 2 years ago

associated PR was merged as it was approved by PIus and Liam. Closing this. Please reopen if you see any additional issue @ppf2