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

[Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming]

On Friday, 27 February 2026 at 6:59 PM, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 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

Probably too complicated for me to understand.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Extremely Democratic People's Republic of Singapore