Kanaka is a directory access plug-in for Mac OS X clients Kanaka authenticates a user to Novell eDirectory and Novell's Native File Access to provide access to a user's storage. Once you have such a system and in place and automated it works just fine. If you follow Cool Solutions, you will see several postings on how to do this on your own, using the posix (RFC2037) schema 'stuff'. If you have an established eDirectory infrastructure, most people who support Macs as well are interested in reusing that infrastructure.