Best way to migrate away from network homes?

I have four users with networked homes and for a variety of reasons I'd like to put their homes on their local machines and delete them from the network server. Is there an easy way to go about this?

I would try copying the home directory to the local machine's /Users (a tar pipe wouldn't be a bad way to do this. See this link for help if you need it: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/qref/targzip.html), creating a new account on that machine with the same short name as the name of the home directory (this is your opportunity to change the short name if you want to), and either setting the UID of the local user to that of the user on the server or chown -R username:groupname the home directory on the local machine before the user attempts to log in.
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