Can't log in as a user created in Workgroup Manager

I am a little confused about users created in Workgroup Manager.
I have created an account with all the proper permissions to log in etc. Their home directory is listed as afp://home/Users (home is the name of the server). The directory for the user I am trying to log in as doesn't exist yet.
When I try to log into the server "home" with this newly created user, I get the vibrating window that indicates the log in failed.
I am used to windows and AD where I would create a user in AD and then use something like \\domain\user to log in to the machine as that user. If i wanted to create a local user on that machine, I could do that too and then log in as \\machine\user to get the local user.
Are Workgroup Manager created users like AD users? Can I use them to log into any machine on the network hooked up to the SL server machine? In this case I want to log into the SL Server machine with this user.
Thanks for any insight
Greg

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