Can I share user account between mac and PC

Hi, I would like some help. I have a mac mini and will add osx server on to it soon. Now I also have two Windows PC's and would like to connect everything. I would like to use the mac as my main working device (and as a server) I would then like to be able to logon to my mac account on the PC's. So share user account from the mac onto the PC's?
Is this possible? If so is there a very details tutorial somewhere I can't seem to find one.
P.S NOT just file sharing. I don't want the user account or fils to be on the PC's.
Regards
Aled

Windows prefers to authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory. This configuration is possible, but probably not in the price or complexity range that you might want. Not unless you're inclined to run both OS X Server and Open Directory and Windows Server with Active Directory (or the Active Directory compatibility available with Samnba installed on a Linux server), which won't be a small investment or a small effort.
If you want to research this, look for information on the so-called "magic triangle" or "golden triangle" configuration. I'm not aware of a short tutorial for this, as neither AD nor OD tend to be particularly small projects to configure and deploy.
Probably closer to your budget, a password manager or the keychain in OS X can store the access credentials.

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