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