?? installing small network/mobile user network --mini as server- wireless

Hello,
Could someone point me to information regarding setting up a small wireless configuration, where each user node (probably mac laptops) can support multiple mobile users. I would like to use a headless mini as a file server ... again connected wireless,... and then run 3-5 laptops wirelessly.
My goal is that one could login to any node (laptop) and have the files seamlessly accessible. Do I need to load server software on the mini in order to support network/mobile users? I am not looking to control anything else. Are there any documented examples around?
Many, many thanks

I ended up doing something similar, but I didn't want to be responsible for my son's Dock. So, I set a different Managed Preference for "Mobility". I added "com.apple.dock.plist" to the list of Excluded files. Now the Docks won't sync back to the Open Directory master account, so there can be a different Dock on every Mac for this user. I'd have to repeat that for other users too.

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I ended up doing something similar, but I didn't want to be responsible for my son's Dock. So, I set a different Managed Preference for "Mobility". I added "com.apple.dock.plist" to the list of Excluded files. Now the Docks won't sync back to the Open Directory master account, so there can be a different Dock on every Mac for this user. I'd have to repeat that for other users too.

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I have a small office that currently has a Mac Server 10.4.11 server running that has many "mobile user" accounts setup. This was done because we have so many mobile users coming in and out of the office. When the user comes back they sync their home directory witht th server here. Works great.
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TK

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You have a mobile account on a workstation for the user maryjoe with a UID of 1034 that came from the 10.4.11 system. You have this account cached. You have a home folder in /Users/maryjoe. You have now bound to the new server which contains a user named maryjoe likely with a UID of something other than 1034 and with a GUID value that likely did not exist in the old directory system, also with the shortname of maryjoe and a home path of /Users/maryjoe.
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drwxrwxrwt   4 root       wheel 136 Apr 18 21:35 Shared
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Apple's podcast series 'Apple Quick Tour of Leopard Server' - this is great, it informed me and kept me motivated through all the bah moments, all 33 episodes and it's in the iTunes store as a podcast.
The book 'Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server For Dummies' - I bought this about half way through the whole process and wish i'd bought it earlier, my reccomendation would be get the Kindle version so you can search it for advice.
The excellent information on DNS from Hoffman Labs http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1436
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The Series of PDF document on Snow Leopard Server from Apple http://support.apple.com/manuals#mac%20os%20x%20server%20v10.6
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Right off we go....
Setting up the Server [this took me 6 goes to get it right as I learnt a little each time].
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I split the primary disc into 2 partitions using disk utility so I could reformat the operating system without moving my data.
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Bind [link] the client computers to the server in Accounts on the client computer - I used the 'dummies' book for this but there's lots of data on the web.
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Read Joe's post http://joeferrante.net/how-to-migrate-local-user-account-to-network-user-account -with-networked-home-folder-on-snow-leopard-server/ and follow along.useful info I learnt somewhere - to get the paths to the folders correct in the terminal window go to the folder in Finder and then drag it to the terminal window and let go - this will put the correct link in the instruction.
You now need to be on a terminal window on your server, with a finder window open and logged into the client as the user you are moving
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so when you're at the right point - type sudo cp -R then hit the space bar, drag the existing user folder onto the finder window, add the /* and hit space then find the users folder on the server and drag that onto the terminal window to complete the instruction.
Hit enter and wait a while assuming it starts ok - i used network traffic on the Activity Monitor utility to check if it was working.
If you got this far and it all worked - login to the profle you moved on any computer linked to the server or the server but not the original client computer to see if it worked and all your setting and data are intact and then delete the profile off the original client if it was ok [archiving the home directory took ages for me].
As you can probably guess most of this was good learning for me and it worked successfully for me in the end, moving all my history, saved password, etc, etc without any problems.
Hope this helps other in the same situation & feel free to expand or correct this if I've missed anything.
Ed

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SOLVED!!!
I hope this is usefull for others!
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