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Kanaka Mac Networking
Aloha Novell Kanaka! It's Hawaiian for "individual."
We know Mac lovers. They live here, too. Finally, you can show your Mac users the love by adopting Novell Kanaka, the best way to integrate Mac workstations into your enterprise network. Kanaka gives users single log-in functionality to all the Open Enterprise Server network resources, just like PCs get. Only now you don't have to pay extra for it.
Choose to deploy either a client or plug-in, depending on your usage scenarios. The client is the right choice when the Mac workstation is dedicated to a single user. The plug-in is better when the workstation is shared, as is common in educational institutions and hospitals.
Why make things more complex than they have to be?
Without Kanaka, customers have had to employ complicated, manual work-arounds to integrate their Mac users with the network and for ongoing maintenance. Kanaka makes users and IT happy by simplifying the user experience and the administration of Mac clients.
Capabilities include:
- User authentication to eDirectory via the Kanaka desktop client or the Kanaka plug-in
- User uses a single-sign on password
- Kanaka mounts user and group storage resources for the user to access in the Mac Finder of the desktop
- When using the plug-in, Kanaka also enables user password self-service. eDirectory passwords can be managed by the users themselves.
If you are an Open Enterprise Server customer and already a Kanaka user, you will not have to renew your contract. You will be entitled to deploy Kanaka for your eDirectory users in your Open Enterprise Server environment.