Cannot configure home sync

I have a couple of portable machines on which users with mobile accounts are installed. On some of the machines I see that I cannot configure home sync. The button in the system preferences:Accounts is dimmed all the time.
TIA,
Eckart
div Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Here's what I did.
In workgroup manager you configure the Mobility Preferences for the particular User. Then you must also create a computer list for the portable machines which will be using PHD and set their mobility preferences to allow PHD syncing and check "Merge with user's settings".
That's what I did and it works. Hopefully that's the way it is supposed to be done.

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