Why do I see Active Directory packages in the list?

python3-samba-dc
samba-dc-libs

And probably samba-dcerpc

samba-common-tools contains samba-tool Python-based utility. 

Originally it was done to manage Samba AD DC but since ~4.15 or so it was extended to also handle GPOs and other data relevant for member servers. Thus, it is provided as a part of the standard member server deployment:
https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.15.0.html

This is an upstream decision.

I can't believe the samba server package/RPM requires any of these RPMs.

I've just done this and SAMBA works perfectly: rpm -ivh samba-4.17.5-0.fc37.x86_64.rpm samba-libs-4.17.5-0.fc37.x86_64.rpm libnetapi-4.17.5-0.fc37.x86_64.rpm --nodeps

$ systemctl status smb
● smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-02-01 10:06:36 UTC; 2min 16s ago
       Docs: man:smbd(8)
             man:samba(7)
             man:smb.conf(5)
   Main PID: 24355 (smbd)
     Status: "smbd: ready to serve connections..."
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 77085)
     Memory: 18.5M
        CPU: 34ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/smb.service
             ├─24355 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group
             ├─24359 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group
             └─24360 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group

Feb 01 10:06:36 zen systemd[1]: Starting smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon...
Feb 01 10:06:36 zen smbd[24355]: [2023/02/01 15:06:36.484931,  0] ../../source3/smbd/server.c:1741(main)
Feb 01 10:06:36 zen smbd[24355]:   smbd version 4.17.5 started.
Feb 01 10:06:36 zen smbd[24355]:   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2022
Feb 01 10:06:36 zen systemd[1]: Started smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon.




This leaves my installation with just these packages (I'm pretty sure some of them are not dependencies but I got them installed earlier):

cifs-utils
cifs-utils-info
keyutils
libldb
libnetapi
libsmbclient
libtalloc
libtevent
libwbclient
samba
samba-client
samba-client-libs
samba-common
samba-common-libs
samba-libs



This is a far cry from what the default samba package enforces on you. Not only those python3 packages but also:

python3-charset-normalizer
python3-cryptography
python3-dns
python3-idna
python3-ldb
python3-pysocks
python3-requests
python3-samba
python3-samba-dc
python3-talloc
python3-tdb
python3-tevent
python3-urllib3

+

lmdb
samba-common-tools
samba-dc-libs
samba-dcerpc
samba-ldb-ldap-modules
tdb-tools


Would be great to have a separate package called:

samba-full

which includes the above 19 (!) optional (!) packages. Why are they optional? Many people need SAMBA _solely_ to share directories on the LAN. Such people need zero additional SAMBA features such as Active Directory support, various samba management utilities, etc. etc. etc.

What's worse I'm perfectly sure in the future "samba-full" will require even more python packages and even more libraries. This is getting out of hand.

We will discuss if it makes sense to split out samba-tool to its own package and recommend instead of requiring it.

A new packgage samba-tools is created (containing samba-tool binary).

FEDORA-2023-35f1c54fc3 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 38. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-35f1c54fc3

FEDORA-2023-35f1c54fc3 has been pushed to the Fedora 38 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

FEDORA-2023-6d265da659 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 37. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-6d265da659

FEDORA-2023-6d265da659 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2023-6d265da659`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-6d265da659

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

FEDORA-2023-6d265da659 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

(In reply to Pavel Filipensky from comment #5)

Thanks a ton for the fix/change! Really appreciated.