Cannot login with Network account.

Hi,
I am an experimented Mac user, but quite new with Snow Leopard Server.
I've just purchased the brand new MacMini Server.
I have configured my server with the name server.local and installed OpenDirectory as Master.
I wanted to try the network login, so I created a Test1 account in Open Directory. Then from my iMac I joined my server.local through System Preferences/Accounts/Options/... then I log off and try to use the newly created account test1.... I asked the system to change the password from first loggin... which works, but then I receive a message saying that I cannot log in for the moment... I tried everything but I just can't use the network account.
Any hints?
Cheers.

You should avoid .local at all costs when configuring an OS X Server.
.local is reserved for zeroconfig/Bonjour, and will cause conflicts.
There's an excellent tutorial for new users here
http://www.wazmac.com/serversnetwork/fileservers/osxserver_setup/osxserver106setup.htm
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