Account-Setup for mixed network

Happy New Year to everybody!
Here's my problem: We have a mixed environment with lots of Wiindows and some Macs (ca. 30). We run a OS X server 10.3.9. All windows-machine got their login on the server but store the data locally.
For the macs we haven't found a way of making them login to the network everytime they log in locally and still have them keep their data locally.
We figured out it might be best to setup mobile accounts, but it seems as if we're too stupid to do so...
We followed step-by-step the setup proposed in the Mac OS X Server-Handbook, but apparently we're missing a point there.
When I log in a supposedly mobile account on a local machine it should create a new mobile account. But it doesn't. It just doesn't recognize the username and shakes desperately...
What must we change in order to make the local machine check on the server, whether this user is a mobile account or not?
Or does anyone have a better solution to solve this problem?
All suggestions are gladly welcome!!!
Thank you in advance
senex

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The first being gui centric the latter being full of technical details.
For to configure clients to query the server use DirectoryService.app -> LDAPv3.
Use dscl to check if your client can succesfully query LDAP. See man dscl.
HTH
-Ralph
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