Enhance security, reduce cost, and demonstrate compliance. Use familiar Windows-based tools to easily and seamlessly integrate non-Windows systems with Microsoft Active Directory with Likewise Enterprise.
Likewise Enterprise Key Benefits
- Simplify your network
- Increase operational efficiency
- Improve network security with granular access control
- Improve system configuration
- Centralize administration and reduce costs
- Enable and demonstrate regulatory compliance
- Enforce consistent security policies across the enterprise
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Control access to Linux, Unix, and Mac computers, applications, and resources with the Likewise UID-GID Module.
Likewise UID-GID Key Benefits
- Control access to Linux, Unix, and Mac computers based on the UID-GID values that you set.
- Set home directories and login shells in ADUC.
- Mirror your organizational units with Likewise cells and map Active Directory users and groups to UIDs and GIDs.
- Administer organizational units for Linux and Unix with Cell Manager, a Likewise MMC snap-in for managing Likewise cells.
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Join Linux, Unix, and Mac machines to Microsoft Active Directory and securely authenticates users with their domain credentials for FREE with Likewise Open.
Likewise Open Key Features
- Joins non-Windows systems to Active Directory domains in a single step from the command line or from a GUI
- Authenticates users with a single user name and password on both Windows and non-Windows
- Enforces the same password policies for non-Windows users and Windows users
- Supports multiple forests with one-way and two-way cross forest trusts
- Caches credentials in case your domain controller goes down
- Provides single sign-on for SSH and Putty
- Uses a robust next-generation authentication engine that supports Kerberos, NTLM, and SPNEGO
- Involves no Active Directory schema changes
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Likewise-CIFS provides industrial-strength client-side and server-side SMB/CIFS support so Microsoft Windows clients can access folders and files on Linux, Unix, and Mac computers.
Likewise-CIFS Key Features
Likewise-CIFS will support SMB1 and SMB2 at the time of launch. - Stores the full granularity of Windows access control lists in extended attributes.
- Checks access rights by using the security descriptor and access token.
- Implements Windows remote management APIs.
- Supports arbitrary named pipe RPC servers.
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