Automount home directories from another computer

Hello,
after 2 days of work, I write here to find some help.
I have a well configured Leopard Server 10.5.8 which serves users accounts through Open Directory: network users can log to all my Mac OS X clients, home directories are well automounted in /Network/Servers/myserver.com/Users/user1. myserver.com is the server of user1 Home directory.
Now, I want that (let's say) host1 (Leopard Workstation) becomes the Home directory server of user1. So, I created a local account on host1 with network credentials (uid, gid and passwd) and configure /etc/exports to export his home on the network with NFS.
How to put in LDAP server that his home directory is not located on myserver.com but on host1 ? That is when user1 logs on host2, host2 automount host1:/Users/user1 on /Network/Servers/host1/Users/user1 or elsewhere.
Note: I already test manually the configuration and it works!
1. In WGW, I put /path/user1 as user1's default Home Directory
2. On the client (host2), I manually mount host1:/Users/user1 to /path/user1
3. user1 logs into host2, it works fine.
But I cannot do it for each clients and for each new such user! This is why I want to put this information (for each such user) in LDAP to automatically distribute the information to clients.
Thank you for your help,
Joan

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