Kanaka offers desktop user access to NetWare services

Condrey Consulting today announced Kanaka, a plugin for Mac OS X that delivers fully automated desktop user access to NetWare services including their personal and collaborative storage. Kanaka integrates with Mac OS X's authentication, providing users single sign-in to authenticate to Mac OS X and Novell eDirectory. Kanaka then auto discovers the user's home directory and collaborative storage locations based solely on the user's identity and then auto-mounts the external volume. "Kanaka's auto-discovery feature totally eliminates the need for users to know where their storage is located on the network, and the manual process of mapping associations to the storage."

"We are very excited to be developing this solution for the expanding Mac OS X market," said David Condrey, CEO Condrey Consulting Corporation. "Access to file system resources is vital to NetWare users regardless of their desktop. Kanaka will not only provide this access, but with the ease of use to which Mac users are accustomed."



Kanaka will be available for beta testing in August 2004 and will be shipping in the third quarter of 2004. Mac OS X users who are interested in beta testing can get more information on the Condrey Consulting Web Site or send email with the subject "Kanaka beta" to beta@condreyconsulting.com.



Loren Russon, Novell director of product management for Nsure and exteNd, said, "The Novell eDirectory plug-in for Mac OS X helps Novell customers connect their Mac users with Novell's networking services. By taking processes that are manually configured and automating them, the plug-in accelerates the time it takes customers to get their Macintosh machines up and running in an eDirectory environment."

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