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Installing Likewise Open on Ubuntu 14.04

October 11, 2014

In the release of Ubuntu 14.04 it would now appear that the likewise open package has been removed from the repository and there is no source package available. However, as mentioned at the following article http://www.tecmint.com/integrate-ubuntu-14-04-to-zentyal-pdc/ you can manually download and install the packages. I only followed the steps to download and install the likewise-open and libglade packages as I … More Installing Likewise Open on Ubuntu 14.04

Enabling logging for Likewise agents in ESXi

July 31, 2014

In order to join ESXi hosts to the domain Likewise agents are used to join to the Active Directory domain and for user authentication requests. In order to troubleshoot Active Directory integration you will need to enable logging of the agent as by default they do not generate a log file. This can be performed … More Enabling logging for Likewise agents in ESXi

Unable to join ESXi host to the domain – Error when handling SMB socket

July 29, 2014

I was recently joining ESXi (5.5.0, 1892794) hosts to a domain to which the task would fail with the status ‘Errors in Active Directory operations’. On further investigation of the Likewise agent log on the impacted ESXi host, the following was being written to the log file: ERROR:[SMBSocketReaderMain() /build/mts/release/bora-1471401/likewise/esxi-esxi/src/linux/lwio/server/rdr/socket.c:660] Error when handling SMB socket … More Unable to join ESXi host to the domain – Error when handling SMB socket