Likewise

[Paul Whitney]

Ray,

Alternatives are Centrify and Vintella. They have a cost. Likewise to my
knowledge is the only one that offers a free client.

I do not believe it was integrated into RHEL.

I am trying to use it and have had mixed success. Some domains I can
join with no issue others that have been "locked" down are not allowing
me to join a domain. Speculation of late is that if the AD is running in
"native" mode, an object must be created in AD first before the Linux
box can join the domain. Whereas if the AD is in "mixed" mode then an
object is created when the server joins the domain.

Paul W.




On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 09:22 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:

> Hi all.  I've stumbled across a product called Likewise[1] which seems
> to simplify a lot of the work one can do with Samba/winbind/kerberos
> (and for other Unix platforms).  Looks promising.  A couple questions:
> 
>   - Are there any other alternatives out there?
>   - There are indiciations[2] that there were plans to include the free
>     components of this software into RHEL.  Did this ever happen?
>   - Anyone out there using Likewise Open?  Thoughts?
> 
> Ray
> 
>   [1]: http://www.likewise.com/products/likewise_open/
>   [2]: http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/12/18/likewise-opens-up-on-its-new-strategy/
>