[Samba] Which guide is better for setting up and configuring Samba 4.23.5 as a Windows Server 2022 Active Directory Domain Controller?

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:33:16 +0000
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, 26 February 2026 at 11:39 PM, Luis Peromarta via samba
> <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > Also you shouldn’t use rfc2307 while provisioning. Learn why.
> > 
> > http://samba.bigbird.es/doku.php?id=samba:no-need-for-use-rfc2307
> 
> I have no idea what is RFC2307 though.

RFC2307 refers to a Read For Comment document, which you can find here:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2307

It is about ldap attributes such as 'uidNumber', 'gidNumber' etc and
all the rfc2307 attributes are standard in the AD schema.
When you  add '--use-rfc2307' to the provision command, it does two
things, it adds the 'ypServ30.ldif' to AD (this is the 'scaffolding'
required by the old Windows IDMU) and it adds 'idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 =
Yes' to the DCs smb.conf. Neither are required for AD to function, not
even on Linux.

Rowland